Hey I thought this was kind of a newbie question.

I haven´t had problems linking devices before. What I want to do is link a program that I have in my home directory to a directory that is in the path (so I can run it from anywhere as a user).

I am not sure how I go about doing this so that when the link is run that it finds the sub directories which are located whith the real file (in my home directory)

Thanks
Adam

Try as root:

# ln -s <full path to app in your home directory> /usr/bin/<name of app>

For example:

# ln -s /home/<username>/myapp /usr/bin/myapp

That will put "myapp" in PATH by creating a link to myapp in /usr/bin which is always in PATH.

Thanks alot for your reply kilgoretrout I will give it a go and tell you how I get on!

Adam

Hey I tried:

bash-2.05b$ ln -s /home/adam/Xnview/xnview.sh /usr/bin/xnview.sh
bash-2.05b$ xnview
bash: xnview: command not found

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks anyway

Adam

Try making softlink like this:

ln -s /home/adam/Xnview/xnview.sh /usr/bin/xnview

Remove that .sh part.

Hey chii-chan thanks for the tip! The link is working now but it doesn´t find the sub directorys that it needs to run the program (they are in /home/adam/Xnview/bin/ etc)

bash-2.05b$ xnview
/usr/local/bin/xnview: line 23: bin/xnview: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$

How can I get it to see them??

Adam

How about making another softlink in the /usr/local/bin? make a link to the bin/xnview, I think /home/adam/Xnview/bin/xnview

does this actually work? my guess is, if you want this to really work, you're going to need to check the permissions of your $HOME directory and all the subdirectories where the program is installed or the file you want to have accessible. you especially need to look at the permissions for "Others" since everyone accessing the program besides your user where the program is installed will be "Other". then again, what's the point of having a user account if you're going to let other users access that user's account? i'd suggest rethinking what you are trying to do.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=165432

follow that through to the end. you might have to do one or the other. the first worked in mandrake for me, the second in debian.

cheers.

Hey thanks megaspaz the reason I was trying that was that I only have one user in my computer.

Thanks for you help to emetib I think I need to learn a bit more about how linking works.

I think there was a bug in the install program for xnview. Even as root it said that there was an error and that it couldn´t install as I wasn´t root. I just opened the install script and removed that part at the beginning of the program. It installed sweet... so at least it working for now.

Adam