On Monday 21 October 2002 08:21, Glenn Pedersen wrote:

Hi all, I recently had a play with Mandrake 9.0 and although not bad is not imho as good as Suse 8.

However there was a rather nice scrolling, space shoot em up game that was with mandrake called Chromium.

So I went off and found the source for the game, compiled it and am happily running it under Suse but with one problem.

I can only run the game if I am physically in the dir that the binary is. The readme says I have to set some Environment Variables so that it can find the data required no matter what dir I am in.

My question is how do I set these "Environment Variables" ?

btw this is the bit about the environment vars here quoted from the readme

Environment Variables:

* CHROMIUM_SCORE - By default, high scores are kept in the ~/.chromium-score file. If the CHROMIUM_SCORE env var is set, Chromium will use that filename instead. (for example, if you want to compete w/ friends for high scores) * CHROMIUM_DATA - directory name where data files are kept. By default, Chromium will look for ../data.

Hi Glenn, The machine keeps a whole stack of environment variables for each user, fed from a variety of sources when you login. If you want to see them, type env or pipe the output through more (env | more) if it runs off the screen. One important variable is $PATH, you can see this with 'echo $PATH'. You can add or modify variables per session by using (assuming you're using the SuSE default Bash shell): export PATH=$PATH:/my/new/path This appends a new directory for programs you start within that session to look in, leaving your original path undisturbed. You could add this same line to the configuration files Wolfi mentioned to get this variable set each time you log in. The machine will read it when you log in. You could set your variables by adding the following to .bashrc: export CHROMIUM_SCORE=/wherever/you/like export CHROMIUM_DATA=/wherever/it/lives Save and then do 'source .bashrc'. You can then confirm they are set with env | grep CHROMIUM and you should see: $CHROMIUM_SCORE=/wherever/you/like $CHROMIUM_DATA=/wherever/it/lives You're then ready to go, and the system will load that variable next time too. HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk

Glenn Pedersen wrote:

My question is how do I set these "Environment Variables"

* CHROMIUM_SCORE - By default, high scores are kept in the ~/.chromium-score file. If the CHROMIUM_SCORE env var is set, Chromium will use that filename instead. (for example, if you want to compete w/ friends for high scores) * CHROMIUM_DATA - directory name where data files are kept. By default, Chromium will look for ../data.

export CHROMIUM_SCORE="/path/to/chromium-score.file" export CHROMIUM_DATA="/path/to/chromium/data" Put these in ~/.bashrc to have them available when you login. sjb

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Glenn Pedersen wrote:

I can only run the game if I am physically in the dir that the binary is. The readme says I have to set some Environment Variables so that it can find the data required no matter what dir I am in.

My question is how do I set these "Environment Variables" ?

There have been good suggestions to put "export CHROMIUM_DATA=/dir/name" in .bashrc or "setenv CHROMIUM_DATA /dir/name" in .cshrc. However, in a situation like this I generally write a little script to start the app, dropping it in my personal bin directory or /usr/local/bin. It would be like this: #!/bin/sh CHROMIUM_DATA=/dir/name export CHROMIUM_DATA exec /dir/name/bin/chromium (substitute appropriate dirnames, and add whatever additional variables are needed. The real /bin/sh does not have the combined export and variable setting syntax that bash does, so I'm in the habit of doing it that way.) Hope this helps. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)