off-topic:
mlocate have some advantages over locate.
it does a partial scan on modified files only, which makes it's
updatedb much faster and disk friendly.
u may already be using it if u have it installed,
since mlocate has a higher score in the update-alternatives system
than the original
Hi,
when I located fglrx
which has been purged,
but it still showed me lots
such as
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-glx.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modules-dkms.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modules-dkms.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modules-dkms.postinst
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:55:38
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: locate something not exist
Hi,
when I located fglrx
which has been purged,
but it still showed me lots
such as
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-glx.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modules-dkms.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modules
to
find results...
TeddyB
-Original Message-
From: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:55:38
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: locate something not exist
Hi,
when I located fglrx
which has been purged,
but it still showed me lots
such as
/var
Your welcome, glad I was actually able to help somebody ;P
TeddyB
-Original Message-
From: lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:09:32
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Debian Listsdebian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: locate something not exist
Thanks
On 2011-04-28, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
I believe you need to run
#updatedb
If I am not mistaken (updatedb may work for different search command if
memory is faulty)
But if I'm not mistaken, updatedb will refresh the database locate uses to
find
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