Tuesday, August 14, 2012

uBuntu Linux find if package is installed in Linux from Terminal


In Debian / Ubuntu


Find if package is installed or not
dpkg -s ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Where ttf-mscorefonts-installer is the package name that I want to find out if it is installed or not. 

Other useful commands are: 

To print a list of packages installed on the system. 
dpkg-query -l

List of packages installed on the system that start with "ttf"
dpkg-query -l 'ttf*'


In Red Hat Enterprise / Fedora Linux / Suse Linux / Cent OS


$ rpm -qa | grep ttf-mscorefonts-installer


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