way to run one app from a different partition?

questionasker · 04-15-2004, 10:27 AM

say i have firefox installed to hda2. is it possible to excecute firefox from hda2 and let it run, even though i am logged in on hda3?
the reason i ask is because i cant make an app (not firefox) intsall on my hda3 part, but it works fine on my hda2 part.

Mahony · 04-15-2004, 10:54 AM

1) What app?

2) What do you have install on hda2? Linux or Windows?

questionasker · 04-15-2004, 10:24 PM

1) kgeo, an interactive geometry drawer
2) linux is on both

thanks for any help

AutOPSY · 04-16-2004, 11:57 PM

as long as the filesystem and partition is mounted and writable from the current shell session, you can run programs from that partition.

you may have to use the ./program-to-exec
" ./ "
if the program isnt in your $PATH varible.
echo $PATH

ugge · 04-17-2004, 03:19 AM

Linux doesn't divide the system up in multiple filesystems with their own root.
All is gathered under one directory structure. Provided that you have the other partition mounted the only thing you have to do to run it from there is to copy /install to a directory present on that partition.

questionasker · 04-21-2004, 05:47 PM

so i could mount the other part, then do a

Code:

./kgeo

and it should work? or do i need to "echo $PATH" first?

Shade · 04-21-2004, 10:07 PM

you either need to specify the full path, which would be something like
/mnt/hda2/usr/bin/kgeo
or cd to the directory the binary is in.

example

Code:

. /mnt/hda2/usr/local/bin/kgeo

It might not work if you dont have the same libraries and such installed, though.

--Shade