On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:11 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote: > ** Reply to message from Carl Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 16 Oct > 2007 13:40:21 -0400 > > > On Tue October 16 2007 01:19:10 pm Stan Goodman wrote: > > > As I wrote in another message, I must not be handling "locate" correctly. > > > <locate mplayer>got me only an oldish outgoing email message. > > > > Addendum: > > > > You did mention 'bouncing icon' desktop feedback. Are you invoking 'locate' > > from a proper shell? Pulling up an 'oldish outgoing email' sounds very much > > like 'Beagle' <shiver> behavior. Did the email contain the text > > string "locate mplayer" or anything close to it? > > I did it in the Search field of the lizard menu, so now that I think of it, I > believe it's Beagle. Yes, of course, the email did mention mplayer. > > I just tried <locate mplayer> in a terminal, and got back that the command is > unrecognized. In fact even <locate> alone is unrecognized. > You need to go to your software management in YAST and keyword search for "locate" It is part of the findutils-locate package. Once installed, the locate command will work beautifully.
But before you run locate, run "updatedb" which will take about 5 minutes usually. Then locate will work as desired. > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > REAL similes/metaphors by high school students; #16: John and Mary had never > met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
