phantom files

[Diogo Böhm]

>From what I searched, locate and tracker are two different applications
(correct me if I'm wrong).
The command to re-index locate is "*updatedb*".

If it still appears, maybe there are symbolic links pointing to those
locations. Find those and unlink them would be my advice.

2008/9/10 Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net>

> I recently installed logwatch which in turn installed postfix. Later I
> decided to uninstall them using "apt-get purge" and "apt-get autoremove".
> Afterward I ran "locate logwatch" and "locate postfix" and a ton of files
> showed up, mostly /usr/share/man/man8/ files, /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files,
> with some /usr/lib/ files and some /etc/rc0.d....../etc/rc6.d files thrown
> in. There was other misc. stuff which I won't bother to list. When I
> tried to delete them I got the "No such file or directory" notice.
> Places->Search for Files showed only the .deb packages in the
> /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Reindexing with Tracker and rebooting
> changed nothing. The phantom files still showed up with "locate".
>
> Anyone have an explanation?
>
> Thanks.
>
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