dpkg quivalent to rpm -q

[Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski]

On Thursday 13 of January 2005 17:19, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> or dpkg -l evolution to get something that doesn't say quite as much.

 But it will fail if you don't have a package on your OS.

emil at rohan:~$ dpkg -l evolution
[..]
||/ Nazwa          Wersja         Opis
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn  evolution      <brak>         (brak dostępnego opisu)

while

emil at rohan:~$ dpkg -l php4     
[..]
||/ Nazwa          Wersja         Opis
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  php4           4.3.10-2       server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag

-- 
 Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, TPnets.com departament of software
 http://opi.pegasos.pl      
 The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck 
 is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.