Hi David:
I believe you're talking about PATH the environment variable. This
simply tells OpenSolaris where to look for your applications. If you
open a terminal you can see the location where the application is found
using 'which':
bleon...@opensolaris:~$ which wesnoth
which: no wesnoth in
(/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/mysql/bin:/usr/netbeans/bin:/opt/OSOL0chime/bin/:/export/home/bleonard/PerformanceTools/tools/bin:/usr/netbeans/javafx2/javafx-sdk1.0/bin:/export/home/bleonard/ec2-api-tools-1.3-30349/bin:/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-2.1.0/bin:/opt/sfw/sbin)
In this case it's not found on my system anywhere in the path:
Blastwave installs its packages into the /opt/csw directory. In your
home directory there's a file called .bashrc where you can update the
path to include this directory. I've added the following to the bottom
of my .bashrc:
#
# Blastwave
#
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/csw/bin
After I restart the terminal, which causes the .bashrc file to run,
wesnoth is now found:
bleon...@opensolaris:~$ which wesnoth
/opt/csw/bin/wesnoth
To directly answer your question, it's up to the folks that package
Wesnoth to include the gnome menu item with the package. Since they
don't, it's up to you to set it up manually as you've been doing.
Everything I've walked you through above allows you to more easily start
wesnoth from the command line.
Hope that helps,
Brian
david wrote:
Ok, this may seem like an amateur question but how do you set the Path. I keep seeing stuff about this but I don't know what it is exactly or how to use it.
What I do know is that if I install software from Blastwave or SunFreeWare, I don't have access to it from the normal gnome. I have to create a menu item for each thing I install. I saw on blastwave's site that you can set Path to csw so that you are using their gnome but I don't know if I want to go that far.
So let's say I install Wesnoth from Blastwave. I can and have created the menu
item so that I can do directly there but suppose I wanted to set Path to show
it. With Path is there a way to have the normal OpenSolaris gnome but include
csw in a way that would make wesnoth show up in the menus?
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