Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-28 Thread Huang, Tao
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

locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread lina
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

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread teddieeb
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

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread lina
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

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread teddieeb
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

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
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