Hi,
Can anyone help with this. I have just installed a program and after installing it got this script on screen:



============================================
Creating "./pymol" startup script with
PYMOL_PATH=/home/TimM/bin/pymol
============================================
If you need to move PyMOL in the future,
re-run "./setup.sh" afterwards.
============================================
You may now want to copy or link:
"/home/TimM/bin/pymol/pymol"
to something like "/usr/local/bin/pymol"
============================================
Enjoy!

TimM@linux-eslv:~/bin/pymol>
[/HTML]

I would like to be able to type :

[HTML]./pymol[/HTML]

at a command prompt without cd'ing to the directory that pymol is in first i.e. /home/TimM/bin/pymol

How do I create such a link?

Thanks,
Tim

The command is so in this case it would be (~ means /home/username)

You can create a symbolic link using ln:

ln -s [path of file to link] [path of link]

example ... if I wanted to create a symbolic link in my root home directory:Then if you are in your home directory ... you can run ./pymol

Hi,
Thanks for the replies. Something strange is happening now though. When I type ./ pymol, I still get pymol not found.Even when I CD to the pymol folder and type ./pymol, my Suse linux takes me back to the log in screen. Any ideas?? I've tried reinstalling again, but with no change.

Thanks again,
Tim

Ah, I see what is happening now. When I log in under the name on which the program was originally installed, I can cd to bin, then pymol, then ./pymol and it works.
Should I have installed it as root so that all users could access it?
Symbolic link still doesnt see to work though.

Tim

What message do you get when you try to execute using the link ?