On Fri, 17 May 2002 09:00:21 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, nDiScReEt wrote: > > > vmware itself. In every previous linux distro that I have used I > > would have used "locate wmware-linux-tools". However, for some > > reason I cannot fathom, that wonderful tool (i.e. locate) has been > > left out and "find" is hardly a reasonable substitute. I just > > finished reading 3 pages of docs on "find" and it seems a > > little...complex. > > > >2 Questions: > > >1) Is there a reasonable substitute for "locate" other than > > >"find"? 2) Does anyone know where the install.sh script for > > >vmware-linux-tools gets burried on 8.2? > > > > > > > There are other programs like whereis, slocate(oops! that is > > actually locate), and find should be did like so: > > > > find /dir -name 'my.slf' -print > > > In this case you can also try: > rpm -ql VMware|grep vmware-linux-tools > > This will list the contents of the VMWare package and search for the > file requested. > > > Sounds like you didn't install the following rpm slocate-2.6-2mdk.
> > >
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