"Sarel J. Botha" <sjb@dundee.lia.net> writes: > I'd say the best check would be to have a parm to dpkg that (very efficiently) > checks if a package is installed, but dpkg can't do that (I think). So, how > about checking what dpkg would check. Maybe grep /var/lib/dpkg/status? Internal dpkg data representation. May change anytime. Sven -- Sven Rudolph <sr1@sax.de> http://www.sax.de/~sr1/