Re: [newbie]how to find out a feature is installed

From: Peter Clinch (p.j.clinch_at_dundee.ac.uk)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:53:52 +0100

Guido Lenk wrote:

> how can i find out if a feature (i.e. procmail) is installed?

That'll depend *how* it's installed. If it's gone in as a formal
software package then the pkginfo command will run through the database
of what's on the system and tell you what's there.

However, there's no requirement for software to be added this way, so it
may be easiest just to use the find command, starting from either /,
/usr or possibly /opt. Something like

        find / -name procmail -print
should do, but before you do that, which could take quite a while, just do
        which procmail
which will have a look in the default search path and see if such a
filename is in it.

Pete. 

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