situation:

got an app in: /usr/local/cheese
it is called: cheese

when i ssh in i want to be able to just type: cheese

and then get my cheese.

Do i need to make a link? (if so how)
Do i need to add cheese to my path? (if so how)

Thanks

You can add a link to your ~/bin/ ... "ln -s /usr/local/cheese/cheese ~/bin/cheese". ~/bin is pretty much standard in path for all the distros I've seen.

Or, you can add /usr/local/cheese/ to your path ... Edit ~/.bash_profile . There will be a line that says something like "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin". Add ":/usr/local/cheese" to the end. Be sure you have the colon, that's how it differentiates.

Or, you can add an alias to the ~/.bash_profile ... Down near the bottom of the file, add a line "alias cheese=/usr/local/cheese/cheese".

slackware doesn't have .bash_profile

i tried the link thing and i get:
command not found
if i do ./cheese on the link i get
Too many levels of symbolic links

The app is located at /usr/local/cheese/cheese or /usr/local/cheese/bin/cheese? Anyway, find exactly where the executable binary is and do:

ln -s /path/to/binary /usr/local/bin/cheese

as root. Then just type cheese on the command line without the "./".

did that:
root@Olympus:~# ln -s /usr/local/tapeware/twadmin /usr/local/bin/twadmin
root@Olympus:~# ls
Desktop/ dead.letter installs/ loadlin16c.zip server\ build.txt
News/ hupgpm* loadlin16c.txt server\ build.doc
root@Olympus:~# twadmin
Exec: Unable to find admin.bin
root@Olympus:~#

Not unless you edit and save it ...


Cheers,
Tink

Tink gets a negative affero for that

with Slackware, you make your own ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile.....

I'm kind of curious about what that "cheese" program does. ;-)

See if twadmin isn't actually a script, if it's try adding cd /usr/local/tapeware/ on it (before it tries to find admin.bin). If not, make a script in /usr/local/bin/ with a code like this inside:

twadmin is binary
-rwx------ 1 root root 5276 2004-10-03 03:05 twadmin
that script works, so i will use that.

no cheese program, just trying to simplify, sometimes when you mention a real app you start a flamewar on how good the app is

I've done a little package with a nice .bashrc and bash_profile
I'm not at home so i make it in Windows so i can't put it .tgz
the site is that http://members.lycos.co.uk/jackberse...e_fix_i486.zip
download it
extract it
go to the root folder of the extracted archive
built a .tgz with the file/folders... i think when you're there you can do that it with tgz command
make installpkg ....tgz
login as root
cd /root
cp .bashrc /home/user (user name)
cp .bash_profile /home/user
cd /home/user
chown user .bash*

now you must logout and login
With this script you also stay with a nice login name, and also you can open X applications and kde applications even if you change user

like that:
BEFORE YOU INSTALL THE PACKAGE
login in a console as some user non-root
su
put the pass of root user
now try to open any X application... you won't get it work
do su username
and try to open a kde application... like kwrite... you can cause it loose the bin path /opt/kde/bin
With my little fix Slackware 10 will be much better

Other thing:

To link anything better make it with ln -sf
Anyway don't install packages in /usr/local unless you know what you're doying
When you install a src package configure it with
./configure --prefix=/usr