[ale] installing suse packages

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:48:40 -0500 Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> slocate apparently does not come with SuSE.  I've checked both 8.2
>> and 9.0.
>> 
> 
> 
> interesting....is there any alternative or do they actually expect
> you to descend 80 GB of directory trees when you need to find
> something?  I don't mind installing the source, but just curious.....

There's always find. ;)  There is a gui search tool from the main menu, 
and it's pretty fast, but I don't know what the underlieing tool is that 
performs the search.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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