On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Jason Willis <chaoticslac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> so i changed the .bashrc and added at the end : > PATH="/home/compy/pythons:$PATH" ###which is the actual path to my python > proggies### No, you have to set the environment variable from within the path, not modifying .bashrc. $PATH refers to your current path. If you're in, say /temp/mystuff , and you set the environment variable from there, then it will set PATH="/home/compy/pythons;/temp/mystuff" but if you edit the file directly it can't retrieve the value of $PATH (an envrionment varaible) so it actually adds the value "$PATH" to your path, which probably doesn't exist unless you mkdir $PATH and put your files in it and run it that way.
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