Re: [flalug] question

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 18:32:37 EDT


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Kresnik Igor wrote:

> My name its Igor. i,m install QT designer 4.3.0
> Now i like know where in file named profile i must write
>
> PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.0/bin:$PATH
> export PATH

/etc/profile here starts off:

  1 # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
  2 # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
  3
  4 if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  5 PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/export/bin:/export/X11/bin"
  6 else
  7 PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/export/bin:/export/X11/bin:/usr/games"
  8 fi

Line 4 selects superusers; line 5 is their PATH; line 6 selects everybody
else; line 7 is their PATH. Hmm, both PATHs seem to be the same. I wonder
why the "if" then.

So if you want that to apply to root, add it to line 5 as

PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.0/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/"...

and if you want it to apply to everyone else, add it to line 7 in the same
way. If you want it to apply to both, you can either do both modifications,
or put PATH="/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.0/bin:$PATH" (it's already been
exported; no need to do it again) after line 8.

Frankly, you probably shouldn't run QT Designer as root, so I would change
only line 7. (THAT's why the "if"!)

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