Re: $PATH?

Neil Bothwick wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:16:04 -0700, Mike S wrote:
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>>ok I am stumped as to where the $PATH is set.  I know in OSX I just 
>>added a ~/.profile and every time I opened the terminal that would be 
>>read and I could export environmental variables there.  however I tried 
>>that here, and the file didn't seem to do anything.  I open a new 
>>terminal and the $PATH is still the same as before.
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>It should be set in one or more of the files in /etc/env.d.
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>>The reason I am trying this is because I just installed limewire, and 
>>the java in /opt/ibm-jre-bin-1.4.2 is not in my path.  So when I open 
>>limewire it can't find the "java" command, which, again, is in 
>>/opt/ibm-jre-bin-1.4.2/bin.
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>The standard paths are set in /etc/env.d/00basic but the java ebuild
>should have added a separate file for java settings,
>usually /etc/env.d/20java. Mine contains
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># Autogenerated by java-config
># Command: --set-system-vm=ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2
>JDK_HOME=/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2
>JAVAC=/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/bin/javac
>PATH="/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/bin:/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/jre/bin"
>ROOTPATH="/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/bin:/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/jre/bin"
>LDPATH="/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/jre/bin/:/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2/jre/bin/classic"
># VERSION="IBM JDK 1.4.2"
>JAVA_HOME=/opt/ibm-jdk-bin-1.4.2
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>As you can see from the comment, maybe you should run java-config to set
>up java correctly.
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I think I have a problem with python or something.  I ran java-config, 
and that did nothing.  I used some options the next time I ran it and I 
got some python errors.  I even tried putting your thing above into 
/etc/env.d/20java and that did nothing.  So I am still working on it

--Mike S
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