firefox 1.0.1 and java

Wed Mar 9 18:57:26 UTC 2005

<posted & mailed>

Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> Then when I
> do a locate libjavaplugin_oji.so I get --
> 
> /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.1/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> which seems to be saying the links are still there in both firefox
> directories!

Just to clear up any confusion in the future...

Locate uses a "database" to lookup the locations of the files that you are
querying.  That database is only updated once a day or something.  Thus if
you make changes to the filesystem, it will not be reflected in locate's
database until cron kicks off the job to sync it.

The find command is much more reliable.