On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 01:32:45PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when I use it,
nothing is retured:

$ which tlmgr
/usr/bin/tlmgr

$ locate tlmgr
[nothing returnsd]

$ locate bin
[isued to get a lot, nothing on this machine

I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect locate has to build
a database, but my system has been running a week.

sudo updatedb

(If that helps, next step would be to find out why it isn't being run automatically; if it doesn't... different next step ;-)

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I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage. But when I use it,
nothing is retured:

$ which tlmgr
/usr/bin/tlmgr

$ locate tlmgr
[nothing returnsd]

$ locate bin
[isued to get a lot, nothing on this machine

I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect locate has to build
a database, but my system has been running a week.

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400
Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:

I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage.
But when I use it, nothing is retured:

Did you install locate, or plocate? The latter is much faster, so
preferable.

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:32:45 -0400
Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:

I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect
locate has to build a database, but my system has been running a week.

If things are working correctly, and you installed plocate rather than
locate, you should see something like:

root@testing:/media/installer# journalctl -b | grep -i updatedb
Apr 24 23:44:17 testing systemd[1]: Started plocate-updatedb.timer - Update the plocate database daily.
Apr 25 03:35:39 testing systemd[1]: Starting plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database...
Apr 25 03:35:40 testing systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 25 03:35:40 testing systemd[1]: Finished plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database.
Apr 25 03:35:40 testing systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Consumed 526ms CPU time, 168.7M memory peak.
Apr 26 03:48:39 testing systemd[1]: Starting plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database...
Apr 26 03:48:39 testing systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 26 03:48:39 testing systemd[1]: Finished plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database.
Apr 26 03:48:39 testing systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Consumed 361ms CPU time, 153.1M memory peak.
Apr 27 03:23:39 testing systemd[1]: Starting plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database...
Apr 27 03:23:39 testing systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 27 03:23:39 testing systemd[1]: Finished plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database.
Apr 27 03:23:39 testing systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service: Consumed 434ms CPU time, 153.2M memory peak.
root@testing:/media/installer#


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The second tine I ran $ updatedb perfored as it should now
it serves to locate a file.

Thankd for the help


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* 2025-04-27 13:32:45-0400, Haines Brown wrote:

I did a new installation of Debian and installed the locate pachage.
But when I use it, nothing is retured:

I know locate can be slow, but I waited a sufficient time. I suspect
locate has to build a database, but my system has been running a week.

Some automatic services don't run when the computer is on laptop's
battery, instead of AC power. For example:

# /lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.service
[Unit]
Description=Update the plocate database
ConditionACPower=true

That ConditionACPower=true line is on many service units. The associated
timer event triggers normally the service unit does nothing on laptop's
battery power.

I usually override those ConditionACPower=true conditions with an
override file like this:

# /etc/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.service.d/override.conf
[Unit]
ConditionACPower=

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