[Dovecot] How Can I Tell How Dovecot Was Installed?

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Blake Carver wrote:
> I'm trying to help someone with Dovecot, and it looks like this one is
> a few versions behind.
> 
> They say that they're not sure if it was installed Via an RPM or a
> source tarball. Dovecot is use MySQL.
> 
> This is a RHEL5 server. There are RPMs listed as installed (rpm -qa)
> but I don't know how I can tell what was used to install the currently
> used set up. (also asking on the Postifix list)
> 
> Is there something in a conf file or something that shows me how it
> was installed?


same method as for postfix :)

more generally,
# rpm -qa
lists all the installed packages

see the rpm man page for more options/functionalities (you can check 
which package "owns" a file, and you can get the list of files installed 
by a pckage, ... etc).