how to install 'locate'?

I tried to use 'locate httpd.conf', but it returned nothing. I guess the command locate hasn't been installed on my centos 5.1. I wonder how to enable it? I tried yum install locate, but not worked.

 

Hi dealspiggy,

first run

Code:

updatedb

after that you can use "locate".

Best regards,

Olli

 

thanks. that works

 

Consider using find instead as results from locate cannot be relied upon, they are as good as the last time you ran updatedb

Code:

find / -iname httpd.conf