slocate on opensolaris

As your local user

find / | gzip > ~/.slocate-db.gz

Go to a terminal

gain root privileges

use your favorite text editor and put

#! /bin/bash
gzgrep -i $1 ~/.slocate-db.gz

Readers Note: the -i makes it case inSenITive so it's up to you if you want to add or drop the -i

Using the tcsh shell may allow this to be done with an alias, but I've not spent enough time with tcsh to know how or if it can be done..

Alternatively.. you could possibly contact the author of mlocate and see if he was interested in your patches to get it to compile/run under OpenSolaris.