The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).
Prepare Findutils for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \ --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate
The meaning of the configure options:
This option changes the location of the locate database to be in /var/lib/locate, which is FHS-compliant.
Compile the package:
make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Install the package:
make install