Locate

[T J Tulley]

The command locate according to its manual finds files by name from a database prepared by updatedb.

If I enter that as a command, I get: updatedb: can not open a temporary file for `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'

According to Notes in man locate, that is the path to the database searched by default. There are other notes about compatibility which I don't understand. How do I get locate to work, please?

With thanks in advance,

[clem]

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sudo updatedb

And you can also use "find" to list files with a particular filename, "search" to find files containing a particular keyword (you need the latest mintsystem from Romeo for this to work), "dpkg -L package" to list all the files coming with a particular package and "dpkg -S filename" to list the package containing a particular file.

PS: With the latest mintSystem, the last two commands can also be written as "apt content package" and "apt contains filename".

Clem.

[T J Tulley]

Thanks Clem - I'm used to being asked "Are you root?" or something like that.