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OldManJim
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Joined: 28 Apr 2005
Posts: 8

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:07 am    Post subject: missing locate Reply with quote
It appears that I am missing the locate command.

I copied houghi's inst script and gave it a try. I got the msg that
locate was not a command ( or some such ). I looked in the /bin, the
/etc, just about everywhere I could think of and it is not there.
I used konquer and tried to find it, no help.
I downloaded bash-3.0.tar.gz and unzipped it and extracted it and lo and
behold there wasn't a locate.c file.

Does the locate exec come from the bash tarball or is it part of the OS?
Or part of something else?

Where can I get a locate

I am running SUSE 9.0 and have all my updates, at least all the ones that
YOU gives me.

Any help is appreciated

Jimmy

my hair is disappearing as fast as my greymatter
maybe old dogs shouldn't try to learn new tricks
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Centurion
*nix forums beginner


Joined: 02 Mar 2005
Posts: 28

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:40 am    Post subject: Re: missing locate Reply with quote
Jimmy wrote:

Quote:
It appears that I am missing the locate command.

I copied houghi's inst script and gave it a try. I got the msg that
locate was not a command ( or some such ). I looked in the /bin, the
/etc, just about everywhere I could think of and it is not there.
I used konquer and tried to find it, no help.
I downloaded bash-3.0.tar.gz and unzipped it and extracted it and lo and
behold there wasn't a locate.c file.

Does the locate exec come from the bash tarball or is it part of the OS?
Or part of something else?

Where can I get a locate

I am running SUSE 9.0 and have all my updates, at least all the ones that
YOU gives me.

Install the "findutils-locate" package. You may also need the "findutils"
package if you don't have it already. This is what I've installed on SuSE
9.1 and it should be the same on your system.

BTW - I found the info by starting yast2, going to the software installation
module and searching for "locate" in the "Provides" sections.

Cheers,

James
--
!07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH
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ToLo
*nix forums beginner


Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:34 am    Post subject: Re: missing locate Reply with quote
Jimmy said on 2/2/2005 8:07 PM:
Quote:
It appears that I am missing the locate command.

I copied houghi's inst script and gave it a try. I got the msg that
locate was not a command ( or some such ). I looked in the /bin, the
/etc, just about everywhere I could think of and it is not there.
I used konquer and tried to find it, no help.
I downloaded bash-3.0.tar.gz and unzipped it and extracted it and lo and
behold there wasn't a locate.c file.

Does the locate exec come from the bash tarball or is it part of the OS?
Or part of something else?

Where can I get a locate

I am running SUSE 9.0 and have all my updates, at least all the ones that
YOU gives me.

Any help is appreciated

Jimmy

my hair is disappearing as fast as my greymatter
maybe old dogs shouldn't try to learn new tricks
Mine is in usr/bin.


I had problems finding at first too. Don't remember what I did but the
findutils-locate message following will probably do the trick.

Don't forget to run updatedb in root to initialize the database.
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OldManJim
*nix forums beginner


Joined: 28 Apr 2005
Posts: 8

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:29 pm    Post subject: Thanks for the help Reply with quote
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:07:47 -0700, Jimmy wrote:

Quote:
It appears that I am missing the locate command.

I copied houghi's inst script and gave it a try. I got the msg that
locate was not a command ( or some such ). I looked in the /bin, the
/etc, just about everywhere I could think of and it is not there.
I used konquer and tried to find it, no help.
I downloaded bash-3.0.tar.gz and unzipped it and extracted it and lo and
behold there wasn't a locate.c file.

Does the locate exec come from the bash tarball or is it part of the OS?
Or part of something else?

Where can I get a locate

I am running SUSE 9.0 and have all my updates, at least all the ones that
YOU gives me.

Any help is appreciated

Jimmy

my hair is disappearing as fast as my greymatter
maybe old dogs shouldn't try to learn new tricks

Thanks to both of you, it has helped. now all I have to do is find a
file to install, I get all the way up to " Not the coorect file"

Thanks again. Your help is appreciated.
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graham
*nix forums Guru


Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Posts: 427

PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:46 am    Post subject: Re: Thanks for the help Reply with quote
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:29:10 -0700, OldDog wrote:

Quote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:07:47 -0700, Jimmy wrote:

It appears that I am missing the locate command.

I copied houghi's inst script and gave it a try. I got the msg that
locate was not a command ( or some such ). I looked in the /bin, the
/etc, just about everywhere I could think of and it is not there.
I used konquer and tried to find it, no help.
I downloaded bash-3.0.tar.gz and unzipped it and extracted it and lo and
behold there wasn't a locate.c file.

Does the locate exec come from the bash tarball or is it part of the OS?
Or part of something else?

Where can I get a locate

I am running SUSE 9.0 and have all my updates, at least all the ones that
YOU gives me.

Any help is appreciated

Jimmy

my hair is disappearing as fast as my greymatter
maybe old dogs shouldn't try to learn new tricks

Thanks to both of you, it has helped. now all I have to do is find a
file to install, I get all the way up to " Not the coorect file"

Thanks again. Your help is appreciated.

It is not clear if locate was actually located from the above message.
If not then 'pin' is a useful app to install.
pin bin/locate
gives, on my box,
../CD1/suse/i586/findutils-locate-4.1.7-860.i586.rpm
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