On Tue October 16 2007 11:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote: > I did <find -name "mplayer*"> from "/" as root, and turned up nothing > recognizable.
Try 'locate <string>' as normal user, e.g. in this case 'mplayer': [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> locate mplayer <... snipped lines 1 thru 35>: /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/cs/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/de/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/fr/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/hu/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/ru/mplayer.1 /usr/share/doc/packages/MPlayer/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1 And "DOCS" seems to 'shout' at you ;-) hth & regards, Carl p.s.: you'll want to run 'updatedb' to index newly created/added files or they won't be 'located' until the next automatic indexing has taken place. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]