>> That was a typo. it's `/var/cache/plocate/plocate.db`, sorry. > My plocate.db is in /var/lib/plocate/, as is bookworm's. > Is that changing in the future?
Hmm... I could swear that I saw it in /var/cache but every machine I look at has it in /var/lib, indeed. [ GNU locate puts its DB in `/var/cache/locate/`, apparently, OTOH. ] Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. From what I can tell, there is no strong reason to put the lists in `/var/lib` rather than `/var/cache`. I suspect this is mostly a historical accident (at some point, erasing `/var/lib/apt/lists` caused problems because that dir wasn't automatically recreated if missing, so you'd have to `mkdir` manually as well as create the lock inside of it). Stefan