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Re: Is my locate broken?



On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 01:32:45PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when I use it, 
> nothing is retured:
> 
> 	$ which tlmgr
> 	/usr/bin/tlmgr
> 	
> 	$ locate tlmgr
> 	[nothing returnsd]	
> 
> 	$ locate bin
>         [isued to get a lot, nothing on this machine
> 	
> I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect locate has to build 
> a database, but my system has been running a week.

  sudo updatedb

(If that helps, next step would be to find out why it isn't being run
automatically; if it doesn't... different next step ;-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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