On 07/06/2008, at 4:21 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote:

What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed
on a system, from a script?

At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s bash >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed
installed
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s basha >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#


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