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'. :-)

Having said that, you could have a look at /usr/bin/locate to see if it's still there.

Also try "type locate".

It's there but for some reason it's spelt "locale". :-) (I think James has the answer.) Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1

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.



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James Knott 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'!

Cheers.

Try "locate locate". ;-)

Hmm.. doesn't do a thing, James. Still get the same error message... Ah, maybe if I reverse this and type "locate locate"? Nah, still the same error message.

Did you recently upgrade and forget to install findutils-locate?

Well, I didn't and I have never deliberately installed 'findutils-locate' (that I can remember), but this program is not installed. I'll install it now and will remember to do so in the future. Thanks for the solution :-) . Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1