Hello Every body,

I was installing a software in my Ubuntu 9.10 and after
installation completed it prompted the following warning:
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Warning:

Your PATH does not point to your newly installed
/home/pc/Reflex/software/bin/esorex.

To ensure execution of the newly installed software you should modify your PATH.
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Note that "esorex" is the executable file and by typing its name
in the Terminal the program starts.

What should I write in my "bashrc" as PATH to that program?

I would be very grateful if anyone could help me in this matter.

With best regards,
Hassan

PATH=$PATH:/home/pc/Reflex/software/bin

That tells it to append the new path for the esorex binary to your existing PATH. Note that you either have to logout and login again or source the revised bashrc with the "." command (e.g. ". ./.bashrc" for the .bashrc if sitting in your home directory) for this to update your PATH.

You can also type the PATH=... shown above at command line to simply add it to your current PATH but that will go away when you logout if you haven't updated bashrc or a similar file.

You can type "echo $PATH" to see what your current PATH is set to then again after you've modified the bashrc and reloaded it. It should look something like: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin - it may have more or less than that and may be in a different order.

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Hi,

why did you install the executables in your /home directory?

I think the /usr/local path for such an installation would be the better solution.

Anyway, edit your .bashrc (within your homedirectory) and add a line be sure to read the manpage for the shell bash in order to learn about under which circumstances the .bashrc file is sourced! There are different profilefiles for different distributions. The default is that ~/.profile is sourced if bash is invoked as a login-shell and ~/.bashrc if it's not. So you may add the new path to your .profile as well.

Markus

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Hi, "markush" and "MensaWater".
Thanks for your helpful replies.

Best,
Hassan

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