Re: How to check completeness of installation

> [postgres@lx90158 ~]$ dpkg
> -bash: dpkg: command not found

The very first thing to do is: get informed about the Linux distribution you're working on:

    cat /etc/os-release

then use the appropriate tools.

> [postgres@lx90158 ~]$
> 
> RPM seems to be too vast a topic for me to try a quick and dirty command. Need to read up on it. 

The two commands you would need (IIRC):

rpm -qa | grep -i postgres

rpm -qlp packagename

HTH, Chris