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From: Tim P. <ec...@ec...> - 2010-03-08 04:33:14
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On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 23:03 -0500, Norman Chonacky wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Tim Post wrote:
> > /home/norman/usr/bin/valgrind --version
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> Well what do you know ... who would have guessed that the executable
> would have been lurking there? More seriously, I am a relative novice
> to unix, although I have had a lifetime doing computation on all sorts
> of other platforms. What I find somewhat troubling is that there are
> conventional "wisdoms" that experienced unix users seem to know
> perfectly well but that so far I've been able to discover. Maybe one
> of you may know where these treasures might lie.
What may trouble you more is the fact that you will begin expecting,
even demanding that other operating systems behave in a similar way
should you continue to wrap your head around a UNIX-like operating
system :)
If you edit /home/norman/.bashrc , you can add /home/norman/usr/bin
and /home/norman/usr/local/bin (a lot of programs by default want to
install themselves in {prefix}/usr/local, unless you specify --bindir
when configuring) to your path so that the stuff you install in your own
corner of the system takes precedence over the host versions.
Glad you got it sorted.
Cheers,
--Tim
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