On Fri, 17 May 2002, nDiScReEt wrote: > vmware itself. In every previous linux distro that I have used I would have > used "locate wmware-linux-tools". However, for some reason I cannot fathom, > that wonderful tool (i.e. locate) has been left out and "find" is hardly a > reasonable substitute. I just finished reading 3 pages of docs on "find" and > it seems a little...complex. > > > >2 Questions: > >1) Is there a reasonable substitute for "locate" other than "find"? > >2) Does anyone know where the install.sh script for vmware-linux-tools gets > burried on 8.2? > > > > There are other programs like whereis, slocate(oops! that is actually > locate), and find should be did like so: > > find /dir -name 'my.slf' -print
In this case you can also try: rpm -ql VMware|grep vmware-linux-tools This will list the contents of the VMWare package and search for the file requested.
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