pkginfo equivalent.

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:19:35PM -0700, a s p a s i a wrote:
> would `rpm -qa` show me all installs, in addition
> to rpm packages?  

No.  rpm -qa will query the rpm database.  If the package was installed
differently, then there won't be an entry

> for example, if I want to find
> out what has been installed, in terms of SW packages
> in a linux host ....
> 
> is there any other CLI that could list all the apps -
> ie:  Veritas Foundation Suite, NetBackup, systems monitoring
> applciations, etc. etc.

tripwire or something like that.  If somebody manually copies a binary
to /usr/bin, there's no way any cli utility other than a tripwire-like
utility will find it.  That's true of every OS that I've worked on.

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