Re: Where did 'locate' go?

From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil.debian(at)gmx.net>
Date: Mon Dec 31 2007 - 08:42:56 EST

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:27:13AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find
> something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did
> 'locate' get, uh, relocated or something?

>From NEWS.Debian.gz of findutils:

---8><-----------------------------------------------------------------------

findutils (4.2.31-2) unstable; urgency=low

• locate is no longer included in the findutils package. It has been split off to a separate package "locate". (There are alternative implementations available, too; see mlocate or slocate.)
  • Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:53:46 +0200

    ---

    So you can use either locate, mlocate, slocate ... but you need to install them as a separate package.

As a hint to consider: If you use testing/unstable you can install apt-listchanges. See for a description apt-cache show apt-listchanges. By default it displays a changed NEWS.Debian.gz.

> Patrick

Best regards,
Salvatore

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Received on Mon Dec 31 08:38:55 2007