How to install ‘locate’ on Centos

August 20, 2012 at 2:07 pm (last edited October 27, 2018 at 8:29 am)

install mlocate

yum install mlocate -y

To run and find

locate httpd.conf

We can see:

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

Run update to fix

updatedb

Check it:

locate httpd.conf

It works)

Remove if needed daily cron

rm -fv /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron