Re: locate something not exist
Your welcome, glad I was actually able to help somebody ;P
TeddyB
-----Original Message-----
From: lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:09:32
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: Debian Lists<debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: locate something not exist
Thanks,
it works,
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, <teddieeb@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 results...
>
> TeddyB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lina <lina.lastname@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/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
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-modules-dkms.prerm
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-source.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-source.md5sums
> /var/lib/update-rc.d/fglrx-atieventsd
>
> when I checked further, found
>
> # more /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-source.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-source.md5sums: No such file or directory
> # more /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-driver.preinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-driver.preinst: No such file or directory
> # more /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx-driver.conf
> /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx-driver.conf: No such file or director
>
> so the "locate" has some problems?
>
>
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> lina
>
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lina
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