Tomb accepts also plocate for search/index (not only mlocate) #483
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Related issue: #464
The problem
Tomb is an old tool and uses
mlocate
for searching/indexing. But modern systems have replacedmlocate
withplocate
. On these systems (such as Linux Mint 21.1 and Ubuntu 22.04) thetomb index
ortomb search
commands are broken, user receives message:To fix this issue i have changed lines with:
To:
Now both systems (with mlocate or plocate) works fine.
Difference between mlocate and plocate
plocate is backwards-compatible with mlocate, and is much faster and more efficient than mlocate.
In fact you don’t have a choice between mlocate and plocate in Ubuntu 22.04: if you install the former, you’ll end up with the latter anyway, because mlocate is a transitional package which pulls in plocate.
Source: Difference between mlocate and plocate