On Fri, 17 May 2002 09:00:21 -0400 (EDT)
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> 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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