On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:52 am, Erik wrote:
> I downloaded the tar.bz2 file for qt-x11-free-3.0.6, configured,compiled
> and installed it. Works nicely.
>
> One problem. The INSTALL file indicated that I needed to create a
> .profile in my user directory and add four lines defining PATH for it's
> main directory, libs directory, etc. and then log out and back in for
> the paths to be loaded. I followed the instructions...didn't matter
> whether the .profile was in the user home directory or the root home
> directory....it didn't load the PATH as indicated. As long as I typed
> in the PATH lines individually (enter after each) and the typed in the
> export command at the end (followed by enter), it worked fine. However,
> each time I log out, reboot, etc, I have to type in the PATH and export
> commands again........aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhh!
>
> Where can I add these commands so they become 'permanent' (at least
> until I remove them) ?? Is this something that needs to be added to
> /etc/profile.d ??
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
Erik, I think you will find that you should add those to .bash_profile
in your home directory rather than .profile.
Robin
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