Thanks, Dave. If I wanted to make the new evolution available to all users, though, why wouldn't I edit the /etc/profile rather than my own bash profile?
Terry p.s. note the date! My system went down as I was composing this message. Since then the box has traveled across the country to San Francisco and had a new mobo put in. It arrived on the east coast today and I'm getting the system up and running. A few glitches...they added a sound card, the ESS Solo 1 Audiodrive (the old board, an A7M266, had built in sound, the new board, an A7K266 doesn't) 1/23/02 On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 15:21, Dave Sherman wrote: > You would be better off modifying the .bash_profile in your home > directory. Otherwise, you are correct in your understanding of > environment variables, how to set them, and how to export them. > > Dave > > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 12:21, Terry Smith wrote: > > I think this is a prety basic question, but that's why I'm a newbie:-). > > > > Today's task is upgrading evolution. > > > > Short version: > > I'd like to add an environment variable. I've never done this but have > > RTFM'd. Am I correct in assuming that I could edit the '/etc/profile' > > file, add a new line such as 'ENVVAR=value' and then add the ENVVAR to > > the 'EXPORT' line? > > > > Longer version: > > I found a magazine in the local bookstore - "LinuxFormat" - published in > > the UK. Seems pretty good (and also quite expensive). Anyone have > > experience with the mag? Anyway, when you buy the mag you get a CD with > > lots of software on it, including, in this case, Evolution 1.0 beta 5. > > Now I know I can go to Ximian's site and grab this stuff but I'm trying > > to upgrade my evolution from the CD supplied files. > > > > I unpacked the tarball and ran ./configure. I got an error to the effect > > that configure couldn't locate the oaf-config file. Well I don't know > > what this is but I did a locate and found an /etc/oaf directory with a > > couple of files in it (oat-config.xml and auto-config.xml.example). > > Configure says I should set my environment variable OAF-CONFIG to the > > full path name of oaf-config. > > > > So can I modify my /etc/profile file by adding a line, viz. > > > > OAF-CONFIG=/etc/oaf > > > > and then adding > > > > OAF-CONFIG to the line in the /etc/profile that EXPORTS environmental > > variables? > > > > TIA. > > > > Terry Smith > > Hatchville, MA, USA > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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