Re: how do i share applications?

[Alex Deucher <agd5f yahoo com>]

--- Brett Caton <bcaton bigpond com> 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?
> 
> 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!
> 

Mozilla is normally started from a script that set the appropriate env
vars.  on most redhat versions /usr/bin/mozilla is a script that runs
mozilla-bin. You should be able to pull the script from an old rpm and
edit it or I can send mine to you and you can edit it.

Alex

> I'm lost. I've tried reading through my linux manuals but they all
> seem to
> work on the assumption you are running a single user environment and
> I
> really can't afford to buy something more appropriate.
> 
> Thanks for reading this through and I hope you will share your wisdom
> with
> me.
> 
> Brett Caton.
> 
>

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