Comments on: How to Install ‘locate Command’ to Find Files in Linux

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:35:28 +0000

In reply to Mike Sobhy. @Mike, It looks like mlocate has been replaced by plocate in most modern Linux distributions. You can install it with:

sudo apt install plocate

If you already installed plocate, try running:

sudo updatedb
locate filename

By: Mike Sobhy

Mike Sobhy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:03:49 +0000

I couldn’t find mlocate:

sudo apt install mlocate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mlocate

Is it still available?

By: ratna

ratna — Sat, 14 May 2022 02:46:52 +0000

Many thanks for providing a free site for everyone. Gaining Linux knowledge in an easy way.

By: Adam Ng'uni

Adam Ng'uni — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:43:08 +0000

Thanks for making my Linux life easier. Hoping to sit for LFCS in July.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:28:50 +0000

In reply to Beginner.

@Beginner

Many thanks for the feedback.