How To Install mlocate on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlocate
on CentOS 7.
What is mlocate
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
or dnf
to install mlocate
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mlocate.
Install mlocate on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mlocate
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mlocate on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mlocate
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mlocate on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mlocate
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlocate
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.