gnome-find can be installed with Synaptic, or by typing in the Terminal: sudo apt-get gnome-find <div>On 8/6/07, Jim Kissel <<a href="mailto:jlk@osml.eu"> jlk@osml.eu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Farran Lee wrote: > is there a graphic front end to either of these? > Yes,  gnome-find <a href="http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/">http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/</a> > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:50 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote: >> There are the two commands 'find' and 'locate' from the command line. >> One is slower because it literally trawls the system to find things, >> and the other works from a database that's updated every so often - so >> it can miss newer files. (I think find is the faster one, but I could >> be wrong) As far as I know, find has many more options than locate (eg >> to search from the parent directory to a specified depth) - I remember >> reading about it somewhere. >> >> On 8/6/07, norman <<a href="mailto:norman@littletank.org">norman@littletank.org</a>> wrote: >>> Although I have used Ubuntu for quite some time I have never been sure >>> how to go about finding named files. I am not a Linux person although, I >>> can use a terminal if needed. For example I needed to find any files >>> with .lck as the extension and remove them otherwise I would be unable >>> to burn DVDs using Mthtv. So, I went to Places -> Search for files, >>> entered *.lck and the report was no files found. Yet there had to be at >>> least one file which was causing me the problem. Eventually, after much >>> research I found two files in a folder on my desktop. >>> >>> Surely, Search for places should have found these or am I not using the >>> utility correctly? >>> >>> Norman >>> >>> >>> -- >>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >>> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk </a> >>> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> >>> >> >> -- >> Josh Blacker >> <a href="http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/"> http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/</a> >> > > -- Simple effective migration to Open Source based computing Jim Kissel Open Source Migrations Limited w: <a href="http://www.osml.eu"> http://www.osml.eu</a> e: <a href="mailto:jim.kissel@osml.eu">jim.kissel@osml.eu</a> p: +44(0) 8703 301044 m: +44(0) 7976 411 679 -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote> </div>