cant set PATH

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 12:53:29

I am trying to install https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch and trying to set path via
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" fi
it sets the path but when I logout and login it is gone.

V1del · 2021-10-07 13:05:02

You are trying that where and what are you using for login in?

But instead of doing that, why aren't you just using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/noisetorch instead so you can have pacman keep track of the package? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository for how to make use of the AUR

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 13:40:39

the ARU package worked thanks.
if someone knows why I can set paths permanently, let me know read the wiki but dont know what I am doing wrong

Trilby · 2021-10-07 13:43:19

Which wiki page did you read? First, there is no reason for the conditional test - its your system, you know the path is there (or you shouldn't be trying to set it in the first place). But the real problem is you were likely just running that command in an interactive shell rather than putting it in the relevant startup file (e.g., shell profile) as instructed in the relevant wiki page(s).

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 13:56:50

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables and export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
this didnt work for me

Trilby · 2021-10-07 14:00:02

And where did you put that command?

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 14:22:23

in the terminal

V1del · 2021-10-07 14:29:29

Which will not persist across relogins, which is why both the installation instructions of the noisetorch package and the environment variables wiki article list files that are intended to contain that information if it should be persisting.

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 15:53:56

export PATH="${PATH}:/home/myuser/.local/bin" I have put this in ~/.bash_profile tried different thing. Explain this to me as if I am 6. BTW I have login and out more than 10 time.

V1del · 2021-10-07 16:14:58

You log in "how"? .bash_profile is only read if bash is your log-in shell which is by default only the case if you actually boot to a terminal and log in there. If you want this in a more global manner that most display managers will honor as well you should use a more global file, like /etc/profile or so

dogknowsnx · 2021-10-07 16:44:52

Remove brackets and quotation marks:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/myuser/.local/bin/

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2021-10-07 16:45:21)

Trilby · 2021-10-07 17:10:17

No, brackets and quotes are harmless, and in some cases the quotes could be necessary.

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 17:19:58

export PATH="$PATH:/home/myuser/.local/bin"

put in ~/.bash_profile works when I

source ~/.bash_profile

but when I login and out. The local "PATH" is removed.

jasonwryan · 2021-10-07 17:20:36

V1del wrote:

You log in "how"? .bash_profile is only read if bash is your log-in shell which is by default only the case if you actually boot to a terminal and log in there. If you want this in a more global manner that most display managers will honor as well you should use a more global file, like /etc/profile or so

whynotarch · 2021-10-07 17:28:15

I have a standard KDE setup with zsh as the shell, I changed it to bash and everything works. Thanks for the help everyone

V1del · 2021-10-07 17:35:39

... what did you think the name bash_profile meant? You can continue to use zsh but you'd use .zsh_profile instead. Or - more shell-agnostic - most will read a plain .profile as well.

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in the first post.

Trilby · 2021-10-07 22:21:53

So you read the wiki page which told you all about the command to use and where to put it, yet you used a completely different command and didn't know where to put it. You were directed to read the article again to see where to put it, but you missed that the article explicitly talks about if you use zsh rather than bash, but you still just put the command in your bash_profile.

All the information is quite clearly and explicitly laid out in the wiki page you claimed to have read, yet somehow you missed *all* of it. If following such written instructions is not practical for you, then you should reconsider the distro you have selected.

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