Re: Install as normal user

"Taj Morton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.autopackage.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 11, 2007 12:18 PM, Hans-Joachim Baader <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > when installing as non-root user the binaries are buried in
> > > ~/.local/bin. IMO the user should be informed that he probably
> > > needs to set a path to this directory. The menu entries could
> > > use an absolute path so they work correcly.
> > Autopackage is supposed to add ~/.local/bin to PATH. Did it not do
> > this? You probably need to restart your bash shell before it will
> > recognize the new PATH.
>
> how is this done? Entry in ~/.profile?
Yes, we create a file called $HOME/.config/autopackage/paths-bash that
contains the code to change the path, and then edit $HOME/.bashrc
and/or $HOME/.bash_profile to execute the paths-bash file.

- Taj

>
> > .desktop files install with installMenuItem again *should* be patched
> > so that they have the complete path to the binary listed in Exec and
> > TryExec.
> >
> > What distro is this that it's failing on?
>
> Debian 4.0. I currently don't have access to this system but in a few
> days I could do more tests.
>
> Thank you,
>
> hjb
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