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Dreamlinux 3.5 - Based on Debian Lenny stable i368 Xfce desktop, but I can enable GNOME and/or KDE if needed for a certain program

Ok, most likely, you need to install mlocate in order to have locate and updatedb on your system. That *should* do the trick, unless I am wrong.

Should I do $apt-get mlocate

Or just open apt-get and hit the search button?

I'ma try both anyways...

What do you mean open apt-get? I'm pretty sure you are talking about your graphical front end for apt-get; You can do either or. I didn't mention how to before because in ALL honesty, I never even heard of your distro until now :p

And btw, on the command line, it would be the following:

Code:

sudo apt-get install mlocate

umm

Code:

sudo apt-get install mlocate

should do you better

Quote:

Originally Posted by astromime (Post 4362563)

umm

Code:

sudo apt-get install mlocate

should do you better

You were one second late :p

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769 (Post 4362564)

You were one second late :p

ahh! and i thought to myself, "wow, so far all of my posts have, in the very least, every intention of being helpful"

now im a failure

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Originally Posted by astromime (Post 4362565)

ahh! and i thought to myself, "wow, so far all of my posts have, in the very least, every intention of being helpful"

now im a failure

Well, in THAT case, you could "up" your failure by using proper grammar and capitalizing your words and using proper punctuation ;)

So I got mlocate and now I get:

Code:

root@Lifebook:~# locate byond

locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

root@Lifebook:~#

Out with the old problem in with the new

Checked the file myself, Went to /var/lib ... Found Mlocate opened her up ... and zip ... zero ... nada ... Nothing there

Capitalization? Does anyone realize how hard that is?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hevithan (Post 4362570)

So I got mlocate and now I get:

Code:

root@Lifebook:~# locate byond

locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

root@Lifebook:~#

Out with the old problem in with the new

try this first

Code:

sudo updatedb

I have never used locate before though, so...

Quote:

Originally Posted by astromime (Post 4362572)

try this first

Code:

sudo updatedb

I have never used locate before though, so...

Yup, you are correct ;)

And you're half way there with those capital letters :p

Here's what I got:

Code:

root@Lifebook:~# locate byond

/home/hevithan/byond

/home/hevithan/Download/482.1091_byond_linux.zip

/home/hevithan/byond/Makefile

/home/hevithan/byond/bin

/home/hevithan/byond/cfg

/home/hevithan/byond/host

/home/hevithan/byond/key

/home/hevithan/byond/lib

/home/hevithan/byond/man

/home/hevithan/byond/readme.txt

/home/hevithan/byond/bin/DreamDaemon

/home/hevithan/byond/bin/DreamDownload

/home/hevithan/byond/bin/DreamMaker

/home/hevithan/byond/bin/libbyond.so

/home/hevithan/byond/bin/libext.so

/home/hevithan/byond/cfg/release.txt

/home/hevithan/byond/host/home

/home/hevithan/byond/host/host.dmb

/home/hevithan/byond/host/host.start

/home/hevithan/byond/host/hostconf.orig

/home/hevithan/byond/host/hostconf.txt

/home/hevithan/byond/host/readme-unix.txt

/home/hevithan/byond/host/readme.html

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared-web

/home/hevithan/byond/host/home/root

/home/hevithan/byond/host/home/root/byond

/home/hevithan/byond/host/home/root/byond/tools

/home/hevithan/byond/host/home/root/byond/tools/root

/home/hevithan/byond/host/home/root/byond/tools/root/root.dmb

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared/byond

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared/byond/tools

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared/byond/tools/admin

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared/byond/tools/ftp

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared/byond/tools/admin/admin.dmb

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared/byond/tools/ftp/ftp.dmb

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared-web/web

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared-web/web/tools

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared-web/web/tools/admin

/home/hevithan/byond/host/shared-web/web/tools/admin/index.dmb

/home/hevithan/byond/man/man6

/home/hevithan/byond/man/man6/DreamDaemon.6

/home/hevithan/byond/man/man6/DreamMaker.6

/usr/local/byond

/usr/local/byond/bin

/usr/local/byond/cfg

/usr/local/byond/man

/usr/local/byond/bin/DreamDaemon

/usr/local/byond/bin/DreamDownload

/usr/local/byond/bin/DreamMaker

/usr/local/byond/bin/libbyond.so

/usr/local/byond/bin/libext.so

/usr/local/byond/cfg/release.txt

/usr/local/byond/man/man6

/usr/local/byond/man/man6/DreamDaemon.6

/usr/local/byond/man/man6/DreamMaker.6

/usr/local/lib/libbyond.so

root@Lifebook:~#

That's right ... it works. :-) ... thanks everyone ... I'm gonna be up late spreading rep

Speaking of rep... Not sure if you know this or not, because most people don't know - The rep icon under the username in the left pane gives actual reputation, and the higher the post count and rep, the more points awarded. Finding posts helpful, regardless of the post and rep counts, will only give one rep. And no problem by the way... Anytime!

Cheers,

Josh

To add - I didn't say that just to get more rep either, since Eric had to call me out.......

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Originally Posted by corp769 (Post 4362580)

well #$^! I just went through and said everyone was helpful. Wish I would known that sooner. I'll get ya in the future