Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> After installing the manpages package again, locate still did not find the
> man pages that actually did install. Does locate use a cache of some sort?
> Shouldn't the manpage install be flushing that cache?

Yes. No. There is a cache (/var/lib/locate/locatedb) which is updated
by updatedb. It's updated by the updatedb program which is called in
/etc/cron.daily/find.

> This is starting to look more like an installation nit. I will see if it
> goes away on reboot. (I hate rebooting for no good reason ;-)

Try running updatedb and see if that fixes it.

Wichert.

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