Updating locate command cache?!

[Robert Kiwanuka]

2009/10/26 Ray Leventhal <ubuntu at swhi.net>

> Robert Kiwanuka wrote:
> > This is a little puzzling!
> >
> > $ ls /usr/local/lib/
> > python2.6
> > $ ls -a /usr/local/lib/
> > .  ..  python2.6
> > $ locate blas.a
> > /usr/local/lib/blas.a
> > /usr/local/lib/libblas.a
> > robert at latitude-ubuntu:~$ locate lapack.a
> > /usr/local/lib/lapack.a
> > /usr/local/lib/liblapack.a
> > $ rm /usr/local/lib/*.a
> > rm: cannot remove `/usr/local/lib/*.a': No such file or directory
> > $ locate blas.a
> > /usr/local/lib/blas.a
> > /usr/local/lib/libblas.a
> >
> > Is there any way to force locate to update its cache?!
> > $locate --help
> > doesn't give any options for updating. I have rebooted twice and still
> > the problem persists!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
> > PS: This is Ubuntu 9.04; 2.6.28-16-generic
> >
> I'm not sure your issue will be addressed by this, but issuing
>
> sudo updatedb && locate <your file or list of files here>
>
> might do the trick
>
> HTH,
> -Ray
>
> Excellent! that did the trick!  Thanks Ray
$ locate blas.a
$
$ locate lapack.a
$

Robert

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