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I followed the suggestions here for setting the PATH but it doesn't work. I created .bash_profile, .bash-profile and .bashrc and put the same lines in each in my efforts to set a path to OpenOffice so I wouldn't have to type /home/mooreted/OpenOffice.org1.1.1/program/ every time I wanted to create menus in blackbox. Here are the lines I added:
These 2 lines should be at/near the end of your /etc/profile (global). Even better is putting it in ~/.profile (local), just leave the other stuff the way it was.
Is your syntax correct? If you want you can post the part you added/edited.
I'm having the same problem with not being able to change my PATH. All im trying to do is add ' ./ ' to the PATH so that i don't have to type ./a.out all the time. I went to /etc/profile and included ' ./ ' in the PATH. I've restarted the terminal, rebooted my machine and no matter it won't add ' ./ ' to the PATH.
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