Apparently updatedb is not being run daily as it always has on every S.u.S.E platform I have used. I installed Mathematica 14.1 several days ago. When I did a locate MenuSetup.tr I didn’t get any results from the 14.1 installation until I manually ran updatedb.
I didn’t do anything intentionally to prevent it from running daily. I’m sure I could force it to work using Olde School methods. But I’d like to know the “right way” to make it work.
Should updatedb run daily? Is there something I need to do to get it to run daily?
# cat /usr/share/doc/packages/plocate/README
plocate is a locate based on posting lists. Compared to mlocate,
it is much faster, and its index is much smaller. updatedb speed
is similar (or you can convert mlocate's index to plocate format
using plocate-build). It supports most mlocate options;
see --help or the man page (man -l plocate.1) for more information.
The file format may still change (if so, plocate will notify you itself
that you need to rerun plocate-build or updatedb). To build and install,
you will need a C++17 compiler and a development package for Zstd
(https://facebook.github.io/zstd/). liburing (https://github.com/axboe/liburing)
and a kernel supporting io_uring (Linux 5.1 or newer) is optional,
but strongly recommended for best performance, especially if you
do not have an SSD. Installation is run as:
meson setup obj
cd obj
ninja
sudo addgroup --system plocate
sudo ninja install
sudo systemctl enable plocate-updatedb.timer
To build the database for the first time after install, you can do
sudo updatedb
The initial run of updatedb needs to scan the entire filesystem.
Subsequent runs of updatedb will be much faster, and create a slightly (~5%)
smaller database.
If you wish to run some tests of the TurboPFor implementation against
the reference implementation, you can check it out and run as follows:
git clone https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression
( cd TurboPFor-Integer-Compression && make -j8 )
cd obj
ninja reconfigure
ninja bench
plocate (except updatedb), and the plocate-specific changes to updatedb,
is Copyright 2020 Steinar H. Gunderson <steinar+plocate@gunderson.no>.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License, either version 2,
or (at your option) any later version. See the included file COPYING.
updatedb is Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. See the
included file COPYING.