how to check package status

[Asgaard]

hello all, i'm looking for a way from the command line to see if a certain package is installed or not. apt-cache seems to list a lot of information sans the single boolean info i need ^__^

so far the closest i've come is to do apt-get -s to simulate an install and see if anything would be done, but it's clumsy... there must be a better cleaner way

thanks

[invalid]

dpkg -l | grep packagename

[Asgaard]

that does it, thanks ^__^

[angkor]

Or:

apt-cache policy [package-name]

[jaya28inside]

the simplest one...


dpkg -s packageName