"Carlos E. R." wrote on Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:29:57 +0200 (CEST):
The Wednesday 2004-03-31 at 16:07 +0200, Frank.Herchet wrote:
- You never, ever have to launch updatedb manually. It's run automatically by Cron every day and after each reboot.
that may be right, but mostly i use locate after installing a program to find all corresponding files i need to run updatedb afterwards! i had never noticed that updatedb is running as cron, but maybe it's right :) ... i don't know...
You don't need to do that. Suppose you installed package noname.rpm - or even before installing it: just run "pin noname" and it will tell you straight away if it is installed or not (and when), and exactly what files it contains, together with the contens of the readme files.
If there is no package of that name, then it will search on the entire dvd listing what package or packages suply that file.
[...] I use pin all the time. Everyday I thank Togan for suggesting it in SuSE (Unoffical) FAQ. However, it is my understanding that when you install "pin' it installs in /var/lib/pin at database called: ARCHIEVES.gz This archieves contains a summary of all the files so the DVD (or CD) doesn't have to be mounted for pin to do its search. However, if you installed SuSE via ftp, I don't know if you can download ARCHIEVES.gz. I suppose so, but I couldn't find it. -- In the Beginning was the Command Line ---Neal Stephenson -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp