On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:42 pm, John P Verel wrote:



I don't want to be critical here, but was just wondering if it is correct to 
put this path statement in the /etc/profile file?  Isn't the /home and /root 
.bashrc and .bash_profile files used for that?

Just wondering???



> I have this in /etc/profile:
>
> if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q "/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin";
> then PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin"
>
> This makes the jdk available to all users.  It also eliminates the
> potential for appending the java sub-path more than once, which can
> easily happen with an out of the box Red Hat install.
>
> John
>
> On 01/29/03 09:25 +0000, Stephen Cox wrote:
> > Thanks for your help j.post that did it.
> >
> > >Edit .bashrc in your home directory and add this line:
> > >
> > >PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin
> > >
> > >(assuming you have version 1.4.0--change the path to wherever the java
> > > SDK was installed.) Then restart your desktop GUI.
> >
> > When I asked this at a forum I got told to put that line in
> > .bash_profile, should I remove the line from there (because it didn't
> > work)? Also I was told to make a link of java and javac and but them in
> > /usr/local/bin. Are they still needed?
> >
> > Lastly, when I tried to install the Studio ONE IDE it wanted to install
> > it inside /root. Where should I put it if I want all users to be able to
> > access it?
> >
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