One thing you might try if you want to know what is or isn't on your hard
drive is: 'whereis' . Locates the binary, source, and manual page files
for a command. Or if you like the "GUI way", Kpackage has the find file
option. But if the file you're searching for is installed from tarball
kpackage won't find it because the rpm-database consists of info about
installed rpms only.
Cheers,
J.
--
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
-- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 23:31, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
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>
> So let me rephrase : Let's pretend I'm a total and genuine newbie, who
> just purchased Mandrake 8.2 with great expectations. Everything is
> running like a charm. Then one fine day a want to find a file or some
> files. I use all the various GUI's to browse the menus for a "find
> file(s)" utility, but : zero, nada, nil, nothing. - Back to ye ole CLI
> : no slocate ! - Only thing to spring into my newbie mind is from / :
> "tree -a | grep something". But then, what with the time this takes,
> I'm no newbie anymore, am I ?
>
> Regards
>
> Kaj Haulrich
> Denmark
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