XLocate

An X11 interface to leverage locate tools

Installation instructions

XLocate is a file system index management tool and a front-end to the most popular GNU-Linux fast search utilities. XLocate allows you to maintain a collection of databases for shelved or offsite CD/DVD/Blu-ray collections, memory sticks, SD cards and other memory cards, fixed and removable hard disks, network places, etc. You can define search sets and get a high level of flexibility through a large choice of options.

Detailed description

XLocate manual (pdf)

Installation instructions

Prerequisites for xlocate-0.82 :

The required software listed below comes along with any recent distribution.

Qt libs version 5.11.3 or higher, installed using your packet manager, e.g on Debian/Ubuntu:
rsync version 3.1.3 or higher, if you don’t use Debian/Ubuntu or derivatives, e.g. on Fedora:
At least one of:
slocate version 2.1 or higher, available at https://pkgs.org/download/slocate (optional)
OR
GNU locate in findutils-4.1.6 or higher, available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/ (optional)
OR
mlocate version 0.26-3 or higher, installed using your packet manager, e.g on Debian/Ubuntu:

View xlocate_0.82.lsm -- View ChangeLog

Download XLocate
Build/query/manage locate database for multiple mounted or shelved volumes for instant retrieval of every file

Installation instructions from source archive (currently unavailable):

Let’s suppose you downloaded the archive xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82.tar.gz in "/tmp" directory.


cd /tmp
  tar -xvzf xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82.tar.gz
 cd xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82
 ./configure                      
 make
su -c 'make install'			# (enter root password)

Installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives:

Let’s suppose you downloaded the Debian package xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82_amd64.deb in "/tmp" directory.


   cd /tmp
 sudo dpkg -i xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82_amd64.deb

Installation instructions for distros other that Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives:

Let’s suppose you downloaded the zip archive xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82_amd64.zip in "/tmp" directory.


   unzip -d /tmp xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82_amd64.zip
 cd /tmp/xlocate-qt5-dist_0.82_amd64
 sudo chmod a+x usr/local/bin/xlocate
    sudo  rsync -vaiu --no-links usr/local/ /usr/local/