I have slocate installed. If conflicts with the findutils package: $ epm -qf /usr/bin/updatedb findutils-4.1.7-r3 slocate-2.7 $ Re-emerging slocate gave me the binary I wanted (also with the correct syntax, as /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron uses flag -f, which the findutils version does not have).
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