Re: how do i share applications?

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Brett Caton wrote:

>I have Redhat 9, KDE and I upgraded mozilla as root as per
>instructions, but now it's not available to all users. I used Unix some
>15 years ago and am very hazy, but I seem to recall I had to add
>something to $PATH in the .profile of each user? Or is that not
>applicable?

This really has nothing to do with xfree86-list.

>Should I uninstall mozilla and reinstall into the sbin directory (sbin
>= shared binaries, I'm guessing?) or does KDE do things another way?
>The mozilla instruction were along the line of 1) uninstall mozilla 2)
>install as root 3) using gnome, do blah blah blah 4) using KDE... uhoh,
>there is no step 4! Aieee!

Sounds like your apps are not in the the standard PATH; you might learn
how PATH works, and potentially drop a file into /etc/profile.d. Or use
the RH9-provided packages to do this all for you.


Cheers,
Phil