The Findutils package contains programs to find files. The finding is done either by doing a live recursive search through a directory tree, or by consulting a previously set up database. &buildtime; &findutils-time; &diskspace; &findutils-compsize; &aa-findutils-down; &aa-findutils-dep;   Prepare Findutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \ --localstatedir=/var/lib/misc The localstatedir directive above changes the location of the locate database to be in /var/lib/misc, which is FHS-compliant. Compile the package: make To have the results tested, issue: make check. And install the package: make install &aa-findutils-shortdesc; &aa-findutils-desc;