Checking if program is installed

[Robin Laing]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:13:33 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
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>>Am Mi, den 23.03.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 18:41:
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>>>>rpm -qa | grep 'program-name'
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> Thank you Alexander. I asked the 'man' after I asked the question.
> Bad, bad, I know...
> 
> And this program was not installed as an rpm (if it was in fact
> installed). Is there a way to check all programs, not just rpms?
> 
> I am acually having a lot of trouble installing this program. If I
> can't get it done soon, I may start posting my questions. But I'd like
> to give google a chance to save me first!
> 
> Thank you all.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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Again, "locate" or "find" will find any files that are on your 
computer with the supplied query.  Locate requires the database to be 
updated which normally occurs via cron sometime overnight.

Find is current and takes more time.

As Bogdan Rotariu wrote:

> or login as root with su - and type : which program
> or find / -name program (this is same as locate)
> 

Both of these methods don't care how you installed the application.


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Robin Laing