>1> Is Tar.pm installed on my system, and >The answer to question 1 can be found by using locate. If need be, run >updatedb first to update the locate database, and then use "locate >Tar.pm" to find any matches. Another and sometimes simpler answer to this question is using an very old UNIX command: find. If the OP wants to find the file "Tar.pm" then the command is: find / -name Tar.pm This will list out all of the files named Tar.pm. Also running updatedb on a very large system can and does take a long time. >The answer to the second question can be found by using my original >solution, "rpm -q --whatprovides /path/to/Tar.pm" (and of course use >the correct path). Very eloquent and will tell if the file "Tar.pm" was installed by rpm also. -- James McKenzie A Proud User of Linux!
