Got it sorted now, thanks for the help. Was the same situation on my
notebook. Installing locate, running updatedb as root, then "locate
firefox | grep icons" and there they are, easy.
Cheers,
Roger
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
I think you have to run "updatedb" first.
It is run automatically periodically after that (not sure how often though).
Regards,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 6:28 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lost icons
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?
