Hi,

I have some questions here, hope someone can give me some advise.

Take for instance that I've installed netscape in my pc. I'd like to just type netscape in my working directory to bring up the browser. How can I go about to link to the browser?

I've read about the symbolic and hard links, is this the correct way to link to the netscape from my working directory? In what situation should I be using symbolic link and under what situation should I use hard link instead?

Thanks

Well, if you installed Netscape and the command to run it isn't in your PATH, you could just add it to your current path so you don't have to create a link.

But on the other hand, if you didn't want to add it to your users path, you could place a symbolic link in a directory that is in your path like /usr/local/bin to point to netscape, etc?

In a situation like this, use a symbolic link. But I would say nither really and just add the command/executable in your users path, which seems to be more proper.

hmmm....can you pls explain to me again in layman's term how can I add it into my current path and how can I do it using symbolic links?

So sorry to trouble you, first time using linux and am trying very hard to understand....

Thanks again for your help.

Well, if your using Bash as your shell in which I'm sure you are, you can edit your users .bashrc file located at /home/<user>/.bashrc

Edit that and add the path to your netscape command/executable on your system, like if it was located in /opt/netscape/ you would add that directory to your already defined path in your .bashrc file.

If you don't have a .bashrc file then you'll want to edit your global file which is located at /etc/profile.

Have a search around the forums here, adding to your $PATH is mentioned all the time and there are several ways to do it instead of just editing your bash files to make it permanent..

Check out this thread I replied to earlier, it gives you quite a bit of understanding of how things work (I hope).

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=73266

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