From: Warren Young
Date: September 21 2007 10:14pm
Subject: Re: no version information available
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Jerry Ro wrote:
> I am not sure - what do you refer to as "package manager verification"?

$ man rpm
$ man dpkg
$ man emerge
$ man pkgadd
$ man whateverpackagemanageryouareusing

Search for "verify".  It will tell you how to ask the package manager to 
verify that the contents of the installed package have not changed.  If 
your particular OS's package manager doesn't have such a feature, my 
advice is to get a real OS. :)