[ale] Q: How do I know whether I have a mkinitrd package installed?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 22:18 -0400, Hxsrmeng wrote:
>   *How do I know whether I have a mkinitrd package installed?*

At a prompt type:
	which mkinitrd

That will show you if mkinitrd exists, and it's location on the
filesystem.

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> I didn't see any package, either installed or un-installed, named 
> mkinitrd in Synaptic Package Manager.

Ubuntu?  If so, look for initramfs-tools rather than mkinitrd.

hth,

-Jim P.