[tex-live] 'Lost' TeXLive after reboot

Zdenek Wagner wagner at cesnet.cz
Mon Feb 6 11:01:08 CET 2006


On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lars Madsen wrote:

> Reinhard Kotucha :
>
> >>>>>> "Niels" == Niels van Everdinck <niels at nielsjonas.demon.nl> writes:
> >
> >  > TeXLive runs after entering
> >  > 'PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386- linux:$PATH; export PATH'
> >  > in terminal.  So my question is: what am I doing wrong and what do
> >  > I have to do to get TeXLive running?
> >
> > ~/.profile is executed only when the shell is a login shell, otherwise
> > ~/.bashrc is executed.
> >
> > Fortunately ~/.profile executes ~/.bashrc,
> >
'.' does the same as source. If you set PATH in .profile, you must log off
and on or use 'su', if you set it in .bashrc, it is sufficient to start a
new terminal.

> >  >   if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
> >  >   . ~/.bashrc
> >  >   fi
> >
>
> AFAIK it should be
>
> source ~/.bashrc
>
> I have no idea what that '.' does. 'source' works for me.
>
> I did install TL 2005 from CD, didn't want to wast bandwidth on it now
> that I had the installation CD from TUG.
>
> (using Ubuntu)
>
>
> /daleif
>
> ``You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
> what they could and should do for themselves. ''
>   -- Abraham Lincoln
>
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Zdenek Wagner
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