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future stir-fry

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Registered: 2008-11-29

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[SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

Hello,
In distros that I have used previously, ln-ing a script into /usr/local/bin would allow me to call the command without typing the entire path. This doesn't seem to occur in my Arch install. How do I get this to work?

Thanks.

Last edited by future stir-fry (2008-12-02 23:14:45)

Vintendo

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

/usr/local/bin is not in $PATH in Arch by default

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creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

Manually add it to the $PATH variable in /etc/profile, or this should do it automatically:

$ sudo sed -i '/^PATH/ s|"$|:/usr/local/bin"|' /etc/profile
$ . /etc/profile

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

You should do that in /etc/profile.d, pacman overwrites /etc/profile.

creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

Yea, you're right.  Actually I was just about to edit my post that it might be better to do use ~/.bashrc instead of /etc/profile:

$ echo -e 'PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"\nexport PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
$ . ~/.bashrc

Last edited by creslin (2008-12-02 11:27:26)

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string

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 286

Re: [SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

Heh, how about:

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

future stir-fry

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Re: [SOLVED] Symbolic link to /usr/local/bin

Whoo victory! Thank you guys.