How to get a list of installed unix software

[opnop123]

Folks,

I'm installing Twister for Python and the docs say Twister already comes preinstalled in >10.5.
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads

However I couldn't find it with System Profiler nor with /usr/bin/find.

Ideas?

Is MacPorts a good idea?

Thanks
Op

Sorry, it's called Twisted, not Twister. But still can't find it.

Also I found a libxml2 dylib in /usr/lib/. Must have been preinstalled. But it doesn't show in System Profiler.

So the question still stands... how to verify which unix sw is installed?

 

[angelwatt]

You could always list everything out that's inside a bin or sbin folder. That should give you a pretty thorough listing of Unix binaries.

 

[jimc]

The *nix comands which, find and locate are your friends for this.

Arrakis:~ jim$ which twistd 
/usr/bin/twistd
Arrakis:~ jim$

To use locate you need to enable the locate database. Run 'locate whatever' and follow the instructions.

Hope that helps.

Jim

 

[larkost]

If you are using this in python then you don't need to know where it is:

imac24:~ larkost$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import twisted
>>> twisted
<module 'twisted' from '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/twisted/__init__.pyc'>

 

[opnop123]

Thanks all, solved my problem today.

The more general question still stands though: how to get a full list of installed *nix sw. System Profiler only lists some of it.

Well, have a good day folks!

 

[psxguru]

man pkgutil