On Sun 2017-01-08 (19:59), pereira wrote: > > Everbody working with the shell should know what $PATH is. > > If you do not know what a shell is, then fstools is nothing for you.
> Actually, I did know just enough to get the $PATH added, but as you > pointed out, not in what you consider the right way, by adding the path > to .profile. In your comment on this you educated me, so that's how I > learn. Another post mentioned that your way of doing it is not necessarily > the canonical (that is, preferred; not the Ubuntu people) way, so now > I'm in doubt again. I do not write programs just for Ubuntu. Seldomly I wrote Linux-only code. Normally my programs are generic for all UNIX systems, even MacOS. Therefore I do not support any "Ubuntu preferred" installation. Anyone who thinks it is necessary is invited to add a specific installer. Though I am German, I have NEVER written German programs. All my programs are in English, because this is the world languange. See http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:8080/ All other languages, even German, are contributions from others. This is the way how open source works: someone creates an interesting program and others contribute to it. Back to fstools: The traditional place to set $PATH is /etc/profile (or /etc/profile.d/*) and $HOME/.profile This is UNIX basic knowhow, which I premise, like how to start a shell in a terminal or using a keyboard. I offer no extra explanation on these topics. > >> Better yet would be to package fstools as something that installs them > >> the newfangled debian/unix way with apt-get > > fstools is free software: just do it. > I would if I could. I can't. In this I depend on people more expert > than me, and > I appreciate their contributions. Sorry. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages > You mentioned sw as a Stuttgart-written way to distribute software. It is called "/sw" - with a leading slash! It is important :-) > happened to have > downloaded the executables swlink (or something), and tried to learn > what they are > doing. SWlink is just one script (not a binary executable) of the whole systems. You cannot use it standalone. I admit, the /sw documentation is not very good, because It was never planned to use it outside of the University of Stuttgart. I have added then http://fex.belwue.de/swinstall for "foreigners" especially to have a generic update machanism for my fstools. > I saw it uses /etc/os-release, which is so well-named that there is no > doubt about what it's good for but I did not know existed. It's good to > know though Not every UNIX has this file, not even every Linux! It is just common for some distributions. -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<ea35cc98-c4bf-ebc9-67d1-96d6759c3...@gmail.com> -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
