Re: permanently add dir to $PATH
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:01:39AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> The other problem is trying to permanently add $HOME/bin to the $PATH.
>
> I have in .bash_profile
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
> export PATH
>
> But every time I boot I have to manually add it again.
This is probably because you are logging in with a display manager
instead of ssh or a Linux console. The display managers do not launch
a login shell, so your login shell configuration files are never read.
(This is why I never use a display manager. Well, one of the reasons.)
You need to identify which display manager you're using, and then try
to figure out how to configure it as a user. Good luck. I've found
that most of them have absolutely ZERO documentation about this.
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