Immediately after installing findutils, I get errors of the form:

kasumi% locate foo
locate: /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No such file or directory

This prevents one from using locate on a new system. On a new
installation of findutils, the database should be built automatically.

(It might be nice if the process to do so waited in the background a
while--say until dpkg or apt exits--to give time for other packages to
be installed and the filesystem to settle down.)

					Galen

Thanks for reporting this bug.

Does locate work after the nightly updatedb runs?  Did you install
findutils on a machine which didn't have findutils installed, or is
this a fresh installation?  Assuming that updatedb runs after the
nightly cron job, I will change this to a wishlist item.

Galen Hancock <galen@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

This was a fresh installation. (I assume the same result would have
occured if the system didn't have findutils already installed.)

Apparantly updatedb hasn't run yet, as I forgot to install anacron and
the system was off last night, but I'm sure it will work once updatedb
runs.

Changing this to a wishlist item sounds appropriate.

					Galen