How To Install mlocate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mlocate.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mlocate.x86_64 is An utility for finding files by name

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mlocate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mlocate.x86_64`

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. It keeps a database of all existing files and allows you to lookup files by name. The ’m’ stands for “merging” database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much as traditional locate implementations.

We can use yum to install mlocate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mlocate.x86_64.

Install mlocate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mlocate.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mlocate.x86_64

How To Uninstall mlocate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mlocate.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mlocate.x86_64

mlocate.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.daily/mlocate
/etc/updatedb.conf
/usr/bin/locate
/usr/bin/updatedb
/usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.26
/usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.26/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.26/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.26/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.26/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mlocate.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mlocate.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/updatedb.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/updatedb.8.gz
/var/lib/mlocate
/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db

References

mlocate.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mlocate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.