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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] easiest way to check if a .deb is installed?
- From: "Lindsay Holmwood" <lindsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:44:16 +1000
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Sonia Hamilton <sonia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
dpkg -s $package
Return code is 0 for installed, 1 for not installed.
Lindsay
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