It does not seem to be part of the default SuSE 9.1 installation now. Regards,
Robert -----Original Message----- From: Roger Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 9:13 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lost icons Thanks Nick and Robert, I'll do that when i get home. I used to use updatedb on my mandrake install earlier in the year, and was puzzled by it's disappearance in suse (perhaps it was because I wasn't root at the time, I'm not sure). Nick Rout wrote: >On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 06:28 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > > >>This might be the same issue Robert was posting about yesterday? >> >>I managed to install firefox and thunderbird at home from the tar.gz >>files, both are running fine. Maybe I didn't quite do it "the best >>way", but this is pretty good progress for me (they are in /usr/bin) I >>created desktop icons linked to an executable file and found the icons >>for them through the properties of each (under System Icons, >>Applications). That was all good. >> >>Then I discovered that earlier versions of both packages were still on >>the machine, so through Yast I removed them both. (I'm used to that >>other OS where an upgrade would have taken place). Now the icons are >>both gone and are not available in the properties window. Presumably >>they are on the machine somewhere, I can't figure out how to get them >>back. I've googled unsuccessfully. >> >>Following Robert's thread yesterday, "locate" wasn't installed, so I did >>so through Yast, it is part of findutils-locate, but with either locate >>or findutils-locate I get: >> >>SuSEbox:/home/roger # locate icons | grep firefox | less >>locate: /var/lib/locatedb: No such file or directory >> >>Where am I going wrong? >> >> > >as root you need to run updatedb > >this searches your hard drive and makes a database, which locate uses >when it searches for a file. > >most distros set up cron to run updatedb every day. > > >
