-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFVfHVtTMYHG2NR9URAt4lAJ0Vfmj2CplGnbn1L82i8v86qjN7qACfYibB yhU0dsC8bpB02WKAmajNfew= =h0uP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org