apt install mlocate

apt install mlocate

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Building dependency tree
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libatasmart4 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2 libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2
  libnspr4 libnss3 libnuma1 libparted-fs-resize0 libudisks2-0
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  nocache
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mlocate
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 50.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 258 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://europe-north1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 mlocate amd64 0.26-3ubuntu3 [50.1 kB]
Fetched 50.1 kB in 0s (314 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package mlocate.
(Reading database ... 64235 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mlocate_0.26-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mlocate (0.26-3ubuntu3) ...
Setting up mlocate (0.26-3ubuntu3) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/mlocate to provide /usr/bin/locate (locate) in auto mode
Adding group `mlocate' (GID 120) ...
Done.
Initializing mlocate database; this may take some time... done
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

See also

• locate, mlocate, updatedb, plocate, mdfind