[luau] locate apt and synaptic after rpm -i?

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Thu Sep 25 15:22:00 PDT 2003


On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:15:20PM -0700, TB wrote:
> Then I tried "locate apt-get" and got nothing. And
> "locate synaptic", also nothing. then I tried just
> running apt-get, it worked. 
> 
> Why is the locate command letting me down? How do I
> find out where rpm installed synaptic? 

The locate database is an index that has not updated yet.

It is safe to guess that the binaries installed into /usr/bin.
Also, `which` will search your path. If you want to list all the
installed files, try `rpm -ql synaptic`.

-Vince



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