[SOLVED] How do I add paths to the PATH variable

tristein · 07-06-2012, 03:14 PM

Hi!

I've installed a tree-tagging application, and got the following message once it was successfully installed.

You might want to add /home/tristein/corpora/tools/treetagger/cmd and /home/tristein/corpora/tools/treetagger/bin to the PATH variable so that you do not need to specify the full path to run the tagging scripts.

I'm very new to linux (Ubuntu), and don't know how to do this. I looked at other threads on similar topics, but still didn't see clearly how to do it.

Thanks to all who help me with this rookie question!

zwitterion-241920 · 07-06-2012, 03:58 PM

Did you try this?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=add+directory+to+path+ubuntu click the first result

spiky0011 · 07-06-2012, 04:24 PM

Hi tristein

If you open your home dir Then press Ctrl+h that will show hidden files,

open file .profile under this section

Code:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

put in

Code:

PATH="$PATH:/home/tristein/corpora/tools/treetagger/cmd:/home/tristein/corpora/tools/treetagger/bin"

That was helpfull mennohellinga

tristein · 07-06-2012, 04:37 PM

Thanks, spiky, that's very clear -- and it works!

spiky0011 · 07-06-2012, 04:40 PM

Hi

Can you mark the thread as solved
It,s in thread tools at top of post