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The Windows has a system-wide variables (incl. PATH) applicable everywhere. In contrast, the Linux situation is touched in the submitted article. >All of these
by forgotpwd16 2y ago
The Windows has a system-wide variables (incl. PATH) applicable everywhere. In contrast, the Linux situation is touched in the submitted article.
>All of these directions only work if you’re running the program from your shell. If you’re running the program from an IDE, from a GUI, in a cron job, or some other way, you’ll need to add the directory to your PATH in a different way, and the exact details might depend on the situation.
>I’m honestly not sure how to handle it in an IDE/GUI because I haven’t run into that in a long time, will add directions here if someone points me in the right direction.
The ~/.pam_environment was the equivalent to Windows' environment variables but has been deprecated and supposedly systemd's environment.d took over its functionality.
- jillyboel 2y agoyou can just stick it in /etc/environment and reboot if you want
- dingnuts 2y agoI don't know what she means about setting the PATH for a GUI. If you want to run a program from the GUI you add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and provide the full path to the binary as part of the Exec key[0] You can also override the actual PATH variable for an application in the .desktop file as well, or any environment variable, with the Environment key, if that's what she means. 0 https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/exec-variables.html https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/la...