Tip of the Day: dlocate [was: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN]

[Derek Broughton]

Francisco Borges wrote:

> » On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:10PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> 
>> What does dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop report?
> 
> Just as side note.
> 
> 1. Consider installing "dlocate" (``Debian locate'' ;-))
> 
>    It is waaay faster than dpkg for looking up package status or
>    information on the command line. Ok, not that much for dpkg -l, but
>    very much for dpkg -S or -L.

Very cool.  Thanks.

> dlocate -s gaim
> (or "dpkg -s gaim" if you have the time to spare :-))

I don't think it's any faster for -s, either :-)
-- 
derek