2 Aug
2006
2 Aug
'06
14:08
Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 8:28 am, Basil Chupin wrote: >> Per Jessen wrote: >>> Basil Chupin wrote: >>>> What happened to the "locate" command in 10.1 in the past couple of >>>> weeks? It suddenly vanished. I used it not that long ago (?a couple >>>> of weeks ago) and now I get the error message '-bash: locate: command >>>> not found'! >>> I think this version of locate came with a limitation on number of uses >>> - can't remember how many, but once you've used them all up, that's it. >>> No more locate. :-) >> That must be it- I've used it twice, reached the limit. >> >> Guess only way out is to reinstall 10.1 but this time I'll be more >> economical with the use of 'locate'. > It's on my system, and I've applied all the available updates. > gaf@gaflap:~> whereis locate > locate: /usr/bin/locate /usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz > > Note that it is in the findutils package. I must have installed it, and used it, on the other computer without remembering that I had to install the findutils package to be able to use locate :-( . findutils package will be installed on *this* computer in the next few minutes. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1