[tex-live] A Simple Recommendation

[Zdenek Wagner]

It is really .bash_profile in CentOS and Fedora, maybe it is distro
specific. And, of course, the following code is my customization:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
pá 21. 9. 2018 v 9:59 odesílatel Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk> napsal:
>
> itsn't it rather .profile than .bash_profile?
>
> I have no .bash_profile on my Ubuntu.
>
> But my .profile, does execute my .bashrc
>
>
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: tex-live <tex-live-bounces+daleif=imf.au.dk at tug.org> on behalf of Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> Sent: 21 September 2018 09:53
> To: rouani.lahcene at gmail.com
> Cc: TeX Live; Norbert Preining
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] A Simple Recommendation
>
> pá 21. 9. 2018 v 2:45 odesílatel Lahcene ROUANI
> <rouani.lahcene at gmail.com> napsal:
> >
> > Thank you for your reply.
> >
> >  I want to mention that many answers in the Tex.se site are misleading. One reason is that You have gave me good information about setting a path locally or globally. I didn't came across any of this before.
> >
> Setting PATH (or environment in general) is rather a Linux topic, it
> is not TeX Live specific. Console applications take settings from
> ~/.bashrc while GUI programs from ~/.bash_profile. Thus if you set
> PATH in ~/.bashrc, TL will work from the terminal but not from TeX
> Studio. On my computer .bash_profile reads .bashrc so that I have the
> same settings on both places. However, to make the changes visible in
> the terminal it is sufficient to start the terminal od even by:
>
> . ~/.bashrc
>
> In order to make it visible in GUI apps you have to restart GUI either
> by logging off and on or by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
>
> ...
> Best regards
> >
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>