Re: flashplayer9?
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:21:19 -0600
W Paul Mills <Paul-NOT@Mills-USA.com> wrote:
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> Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > Kent West wrote:
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> >> "updatedb" runs by default, I believe, every day. However, just to
> >> be sure, I'd run it manually, then do another run of your locate
> >> command.
> > And this is weirder -- after running updatedb, locate now says that
> > libflashplayer.so exists in ~/.mozilla/plugins. Ok, so it is
> > installed locally, instead of globally. I can deal with that. But
> > why did locate not find it before? Is updatedb not running
> > automatically on my system? Maybe I'll go back to using 'find'
> > instead of 'locate.' The syntax for locate is easier, but find
> > never missed anything before (that I know of).
> >
>
> That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories.
>
It does here. The file /etc/updatedb.conf controls this behaviour.
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Liam
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