Re: Issue with installing old G2 in seperate prefix

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 05:16, John Palmieri wrote:
> If you are running the bash shell it will source the .bash_profile file
> in your home directory.  Other shells have similar profile files that
> are sourced whenever a shell is loaded (in your case, opening up a
> terminal window).  Just export the needed variables at the end of your
> .bash_profile and you should be set.

confused - isn't .bash_profile source on login, so shouldnt env
variables exported afterwards override it?

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> J5
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 23:22, mike wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have current cvs in /usr and have (finally) got g2 2.0,2 in /opt
> > 
> > I run the folling script to run my g2 in /opt
> > 
> > export GNOME_PATH=/opt/gnome/bin
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib
> > export
> > PATH=/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/gnome:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin:/root/bin
> > export
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig/:/opt/gnome:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> > export WINDOW_MANAGER=/opt/gnome/bin/metacity
> > 
> > I then check set and everything is OK
> > Then I run startx and when I run set in a terminal my PATHS revert to
> > /usr
> > 
> > anyone any ideas whats happening
> > 
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