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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Saturday 2006-11-11 at 09:52 -0000, John wrote:

> I've just added a utility to my SuSE installation which was built from scratch
> rather than an RPM. Consequently, it has put itself into the /opt directory.
> 
> In order to run this app and read its manual, I need to add the relevant
> directories to PATH and MANPATH respectively, but if I use the 'export'
> command, it only adds them or the current session.

The easiest way is to put locally made/compiled programs under /usr/local. 
The normal environment is prepared to use that tree by default.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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