On Fri, 17 May 2002, Scott S. Jones D.C. wrote: > I am installing QT 3.0.3. The question is about environment variables, so > please, no 'Take the question to the QT folks' comments. > > In order for this to be set up and run correctly, I have to set up 4 > variables in my .profile. > > After inserting the lines in /home/scott/.profile, and double checking them > for accuracy, and rebooting my machine, I run $echo $QTDIR and get a reply
Why are you rebooting your box to fix env vars for 1 user?? THe *only* reason to reboot Linux is to change kernels or change hardware. You certainly don't do it to set environmental variables when this works in the bash shell: export VAR_NAME="whatever you want" Alternatively, in the bash shell you can run "source <file>" and it will update your currently logged in shell with the changes. > that the variable is in /usr/lib/qt2, however when I made the entry in > .profile I told it to look in /usr/local/qt instead. > > Where else could this be set, causing echo to report the wrong location for > this variable? What other files would hold this information? Hard to say since i don't know which shell you're using, or which distro you're running. If its bash, ~/.bashrc could be quite useful. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
