On Wednesday 01 May 2002 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich offered this for consideration: > Thanks Frans - I didn't use the "rpm -q" option, just tried to use > "locate", result was : "command not found". Then I became root and tried > "updatedb", but - alas - with no better luck. So I figured it just wasn't > there. That surprised me somewhat, because I think "slocate" is a fairly > basic program, but maybe I just unintentionally omitted it during install, > although I installed most everything. Then I did a "ls -al | grep slocate" > in the RPMS on all CD's. Still to no avail. So I am pretty sure it isn't on > 8.2 powerpack. > > So let me rephrase : Let's pretend I'm a total and genuine newbie, who just > purchased Mandrake 8.2 with great expectations. Everything is running like > a charm. Then one fine day a want to find a file or some files. I use all > the various GUI's to browse the menus for a "find file(s)" utility, but : > zero, nada, nil, nothing. - Back to ye ole CLI : no slocate ! - Only thing > to spring into my newbie mind is from / : "tree -a | grep something". But > then, what with the time this takes, I'm no newbie anymore, am I ? > > Regards > > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Slocate is on my installation and I haven't added anything from any other version.
Not quite sure which disk it's on (Download Edition) but I think it may have been disk 2. Package manager shows it installed in: /var/lib/slocate. I'd suggest having another look. -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB, Canada Mandrake 8.2 user 244963 at http://counter.li.org 2:59pm up 10:33, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
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