Re: [CentOS] Installed program not found

On Mon, August 1, 2005 11:41 am, Steve Huff said:

p.s. one tip that may save you a long "find /" in the future; rpm -ql <packagename> gives you a list of all files contained in a given package. "rpm -ql wacom | grep wacomcpl" might have been a quicker route to success (assuming the wacom package was named something like wacom.x.y-z.i386.rpm)

This is true for rpm packages, but the original post said the drivers were made and installed ... I assumed that those were not an RPM, but they could have been.

Another thing that can be done is to install slocate and set the command updatedb to run in cron, then you can use the command:

locate name_of_file

This is much faster than find, but only if the slocate database is kept updated.