General :: How To Find All Files Not Part Of Installed Distro
May 19, 2011
I loaded a distro (which does not seem relevant) onto my laptop and used it for a while. Applications did whatever they do creating and saving files. I know that I have images and documents and videos and music and such on the laptop among other non-distro data files. Is there a simple (straightforward) way to identify which files on disk are NOT part of the installed distro? I know how to use find. I know that find lets me locate files based on some date-time-stamp. I know, too, that I can use any selected file as a benchmark date-time instead of some specific command line string.
For example:
Code:
Find files whose modification date is before (or after) the date(s) associated with the file /path/foo.bar.
Is there any one file that I could use to peg the distro install date? Can I get that date from somewhere else like a file system details?
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Sep 7, 2010
What New Distro has kgrubeditor installed? I need this application & cant get to install in Ubuntu 10.04.1 Lucid.
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I know what happens from experience if I just delete that partition with a liveCD - GRUB won't boot anything on reboot.
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[Code]...
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Sep 11, 2009
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Jan 25, 2009
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May 3, 2010
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Aug 9, 2010
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cc: command not found
make: *** [...] error 127
It's weird that the shell can't find 'cc' while I do have gcc-4.3 installed.
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Feb 27, 2011
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Mar 28, 2011
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Oct 5, 2010
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Jan 9, 2010
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
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Jul 19, 2010
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Feb 6, 2011
I'm installing LoL using Wine and I can't find where setup has put the files. When I type "wine lol.launcher" it says "wine: cannot find L"c:\windows\system32\lol.launcher". For that matter I can't find where the setup program has installed any of the LoL components
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Dec 13, 2010
I am using Slackware 13.1 with the uname -a output:
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Linux darkstar 2.6.33.4 #2 Thu May 13 00:27:45 CDT 2010 i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
When the binary smbpasswd is executed it gives the following output
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smbpasswd: error while loading shared libraries: libwbclient.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory ldd /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd has this output
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linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libldap-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2 (0xb7220000)
liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0xb7214000)
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[code]....
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