[SOLVED]locate

lgeek · 2012-03-11 19:56:19

When I was using Ubuntu, often I use locate to find files on disk, Now on Arch when I do locate says "command not found".
Do I need to install some package?

Last edited by lgeek (2012-03-11 20:19:14)

ewaller · 2012-03-11 19:59:35

core/findutils

Pacman could have helped you with that...

ewaller@odin:~ 1001 %pacman -Ss locate
core/findutils 4.4.2-4 (base) [installed]
    GNU utilities to locate files
core/mlocate 0.25-1 [installed]
    Faster merging drop-in for slocate
extra/perl-file-sharedir 1.03-2
    Locate per-dist and per-module shared files
ewaller@odin:~ 1002 %

karol · 2012-03-11 20:01:25

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … is_X_in.3F
pkgfile is generally a better tool for this job than 'pacman -Ss' as the latter searches only package names and descriptions.

Edit:

ewaller wrote:

core/findutils

Nope, findutils has 'find', mlocate has 'locate'.

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lgeek · 2012-03-11 20:04:02

I have findutils installed. And locate doesn't work...
Do I need to install any other package?

RichAustin · 2012-03-11 20:04:02

There is a very useful command called "whereis". You use it like this:

[richard@localhost ~]$ whereis firefox
firefox: /usr/bin/firefox /usr/lib/firefox

The help for it looks like this:

[richard@localhost ~]$ whereis -h

Usage:
 whereis [options] file

Options:
 -f <file>  define search scope
 -b         search only binaries
 -B <dirs>  define binaries lookup path
 -m         search only manual paths
 -M <dirs>  define man lookup path
 -s         search only sources path
 -S <dirs>  define sources lookup path
 -u         search from unusual enties
 -V         output version information and exit
 -h         display this help and exit

See how to use file and dirs arguments from whereis(1) manual.

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lgeek · 2012-03-11 20:04:54

Thanks for the information

karol · 2012-03-11 20:06:22

RichAustin wrote:

There is a very useful command called "whereis".]

You have to have the package (e.g. mlocate) installed, otherwise 'whereis' won't help you at all.

RichAustin · 2012-03-11 20:07:39

karol wrote:

RichAustin wrote:
There is a very useful command called "whereis".]
You have to have the package (e.g. mlocate) installed, otherwise 'whereis' won't help you at all.

I must admit karol I didn't know that.

Mr.Elendig · 2012-03-11 20:11:12

nosr
kittyfile

karol · 2012-03-11 20:14:02

Mr.Elendig wrote:

nosr
kittyfile

Is kittyfile web-only or does it have a local / offline version? 'nosr kittyfile' didn't reveal anything ;P

Mr.Elendig · 2012-03-11 20:15:08

use nosr for searching offline, kittyfile is just a horribly badly written naive webapp to search the same filedb. ( I wrote it in like 15 mins just to play with cherrypy )

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karol · 2012-03-11 20:18:53

Mr.Elendig wrote:

kittyfile is just a horribly badly written naive webapp to search the same filedb

Ah, OK thanks ... and sorry. I think I broke teh kitty - it's' not working for me anymore

@lgeek
Please remember to mark the thread as solved: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

Mr.Elendig · 2012-03-11 20:23:08

karol wrote:

Mr.Elendig wrote:
kittyfile is just a horribly badly written naive webapp to search the same filedb
Ah, OK thanks ... and sorry. I think I broke teh kitty - it's' not working for me anymore

Nha, it was just doing a db update, it is done now.

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lgeek · 2012-03-11 20:25:41

I had to do that.. But after all it worked

karol · 2012-03-11 20:27:32

kittyfile seems to have the same limitation as http://arm.konnichi.com/find/index.php? … n%2Flocate - only absolute filenames are currently supported.

Mr.Elendig · 2012-03-11 20:37:33

karol wrote:

kittyfile seems to have the same limitation as http://arm.konnichi.com/find/index.php? … n%2Flocate - only absolute filenames are currently supported.

wrong, read up on regex/globbing
eg */bin/locate and *pacman etc works fine

karol · 2012-03-11 20:50:03

'*pacman' works indeed. This kitty is full of surprises :-)

Gen2ly · 2012-05-02 02:28:34

So 'mlocate' is not installed by default anymore? I thought on my initial install that it was. Installed via core install media this time and didn't think to check for it.

Mr.Elendig · 2012-05-02 10:27:42

Gen2ly wrote:

So 'mlocate' is not installed by default anymore? I thought on my initial install that it was. Installed via core install media this time and didn't think to check for it.

Since 3 years ago or something.

syryndypyty · 2023-05-10 19:30:47

This

sudo pacman -S mlocate
sudo updatedb
locate whatever

2ManyDogs · 2023-05-10 19:38:08

Closing this ancient thread.

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