locate and mlocate missing | TurnKey GNU/Linux

I'm using trac-11.0-lucid-x86 as an Amazon EC2 AMI.

I noticed that I could not use "locate" or "mlocate" commands.

$ locate test
-bash: locate: command not found

I looked and could not find the files in /usr/bin/ nor updatedb.sh

I tried installing findutils and it says that it is already installed.

root@servername /# apt-get install findutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
findutils is already the newest version.

I was under the impression that these were part of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS core.

Replies (2)

They probably are part of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server

Reply 1 2011-01-05

But TKL is build from scratch using an Ubuntu 10.04 based JeOS with Ubuntu 10.04 packages rather than a reduced/improved Ubuntu 10.04 Server install.

locate and mlocate appear to be separate packages, try:

apt-get update && apt-get install locate mlocate

Thanks, I'll grab mlocate as

Reply 2 2011-01-05

Thanks, I'll grab mlocate as it looks like it's now recommended and more efficient.

And of course, I could always use "find" but I was pretty used to using locate.

source:

http://serverfault.com/questions/11189/linux-locate-find-which-how-do-i-...