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

From: Guido Lenk (lenk_at_ifis.uni-passau.de)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:17:33 +0200

Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> schrieb:

>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.

thx a lot! 

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