On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> I've never been able to figure out when to use .profile vs .bashrc, but
> I thought it had to do with only one of them being run when a subshell
> was started, or something like that.
>
That's basically it. For a login shell, .profile is run; you
I've never been able to figure out when to use .profile vs .bashrc, but
I thought it had to do with only one of them being run when a subshell
was started, or something like that.
I do note that on both my OS-X and Linux boxes, /etc/profile sources
bashrc, and uses bash syntax, so it sure looks
>than one way, but I think the most common is to create a file called
>.profile, and put it in your home directory. Put in this line:
>
>export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
I'd use '.bashrc' or '.bash_profile', because 'export' is bash syntax --
'.profile' should be read by any shell, and tcsh (e.g
On 22-nov-2005, at 17:56, Abe Mathews wrote:
> You need to create a link in /usr/bin to python2.4.
>
> If at the prompt you do a
> $ ls -lai /usr/bin/python*
>
> You should see files for python, python2.3, and python2.4.
Not if you installed the official installer DMG, it installs
the interprete
This is a much better solution. Sorry I didn't read the archives first.
Jeremy
On 11/22/05, Chris Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abe Mathews wrote:
> > You need to create a link in /usr/bin to python2.4.
>
> Sorry Abe, but:
>
> DON'T DO THAT
>
> There are standard ways to do things that wi
On 11/22/05 12:19 PM, "Chris Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abe Mathews wrote:
>> You need to create a link in /usr/bin to python2.4.
>
> Sorry Abe, but:
>
> DON'T DO THAT
My apologies for error propagation, then.
Abe Mathews
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Abe Mathews wrote:
> You need to create a link in /usr/bin to python2.4.
Sorry Abe, but:
DON'T DO THAT
There are standard ways to do things that will prevent you from messing
up your system.
Rule of thumb: don't mess with anything in /usr or /system. That's
Apple's job.
When you add things,
You need to create a link in /usr/bin to python2.4.
If at the prompt you do a
$ ls -lai /usr/bin/python*
You should see files for python, python2.3, and python2.4. All of these are
links - python2.3 and python2.4 should link back to their respective
framework directories (on my machine, 2.3 is i
I just installed/upgraded python by using the package from
http://undefined.org/python/MacPython-OSX-2.4.1-1.dmg.
I just want the latest version of python so I can use matplotlib
(among other things). However, it doesn't seem that the python I use
from the terminal is version 2.4.x. What must I
