lubuntu 'find'

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Betty,

To use the mlocate package in Kubutun, you can just enter:

# locate $filepart |more

or for binaries in your $PATH,

# which $filename

Of course if you are not in a su or root session, you will only search your
own $PATH.

If your locate database has not been updated (by cron - setup when the
mlocate package is installed by dpkg) you can also not find things.  You
can manually update this with:

# updatedb &

If you have a huge mounted partition that you don't want to include, you
can configure your /etc/located.conf to ignore that mount or filesystem.

The mlocate package has various Buntu installation bugs, so you might need
to verify it:

# find / -name updatedb

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an 'mlocate.db' but not slocate. Is that the same thing? Or else
> does this mean I have to do it the way I've been doing it.... manually?
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:
>
>> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty <nicepenguin at webcanine.com>
>> wrote:
>>
> [see if you have] /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ; if that file exists and is
>> reasonably large,
>>
>> your distro is running updatedb every so often.
>>
>> There are some GUI-fied interfaces to locate too.  Not sure what they are,
>> since I'm a command-line sort of person.
>>
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