Why isnt my PATH variable working?

JonD · 18 Feb 2006 at 20:07

I have just installed a program here:

/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.0/

and I need to set the environment variables in the /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.0/bin directory which containts "qmake". I want to run this from any location on the computer.

I set the variable by:

PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.1/bin:$PATH
export PATH

Then I type in qmake and it comes up with

bash: qmake: command not found

Anyone know why this isnt working???

(It was working the other day tho!)

Thx

M0KUJ1N · 18 Feb 2006 at 21:50

what does echo $PATH output? You didn't edit the PATH variable of the root user and are running it as you (or vice versa?)

Hades · 19 Feb 2006 at 00:47

Is qmake in that directory, and is the execute flag set for the user you're using?

ikapod · 19 Feb 2006 at 10:52

I have just installed a program here:

/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.0/

I set the variable by:

PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.1/bin:$PATH
export PATH

typo ?

ip

JonD · 19 Feb 2006 at 11:58

We spotted ikapod. Ill see if thats right when I boot into linux

qmake is in the directory and if i type "qmake" in the directory. It works fine...

eatmuchpie · 19 Feb 2006 at 12:13

I had a problem with qmake not being found, unless I did an
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/qt3/bin
However, I know how to fix this!
after doing the above command,
env | grep PATH
Find the PATH variable and copy the whole thing (eg.
PATH=/home/eatmuchpie/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin)
Make sure that if it spans a few lines, that you get all of it. It should end in /usr/lib/qt3/bin, because of the export command.
Then type in:
kate ~/.bashrc
Then paste the at the bottom of the file. That did the job for me (I'm not sure if you need to reboot, but probably not).
FYI, I'm on suse 10.

JonD · 19 Feb 2006 at 13:43

Which file/files do I have to edit to export PATH's automatically on boot/login?

I can never remember....

Thx

btw Ikapod was right! Thx a lot.

M0KUJ1N · 19 Feb 2006 at 18:34

JonD said:
Which file/files do I have to edit to export PATH's automatically on boot/login?

I can never remember....

~/.bashrc for your user account, /etc/bashrc for all user accounts (assuming you are using a Redhat-derivative distro and the bash shell) (there's also ~/.bash_profile and /etc/profile).

Thx

btw Ikapod was right! Thx a lot.

I did spot that in the original post but thought it would be pretty impossible to make the same typo twice

Glad it was something simple and straightforward.