6 Dec
2005
6 Dec
'05
5:39 a.m.
On Monday 05 December 2005 17:13, Sutanu Majumdar wrote:
I am presently working in a s/w company in Bangalore. I am invovled in a project that installs s/w evaluation products on user's system. So we need a software program (coded in C++,java, ruby) that would run in linux platform and determine whether previous versions of a s/w product are already installed. Can anyone help me with this?
What u need is a package manager. Almost every distro has a package manager (apt, rpm, portage etc). Create a package for your product and install it using the package manager. Then using the package manager u can query various details about your package. No need to reinvent wheels.
rgds jtd