On Friday 15 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: > I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In > both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command > not found. This happens both as user and as root. > > If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous paths given in > parentheses). > > Is there such a thing as a linux system that does not have locate? > Why would Mandrake not have a basic command like locate?
Sounds like you don't have the package slocate installed yet. Slocate is a secure version of locate. As root, urpmi slocate once installed do (still as root) slocate -u -c or updatedb -- Cheers dg
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