On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > 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 $PATH and put your files in it and run it that way. > So what you really want to do is export PATH=$PATH:/home/compy/pythons from the command line. Unless I don't understand what .bashrc is for which is definitely possible, I'm a Windoze programmer.
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