Beartooth wrote:
I put this program in my bin directory in my home directory, i.e.,
/home/ david/bin. So in my pan preferences for the Mail Reader Custom
Command, I just put:
/home/david/bin/alpine_helper.pl
That does the trick.
I don't have any /home/btth/bin, nor even a /home/btth/.bin; do I
just start with "mkdir bin"? Or does some wrinkle in Fedora mean I have
to move it from /home/btth to some place like /usr/bin? Or do I just
leave it where it is, without any bin directory? Or what? Where is
Fedora's version of Pan going to look for it??
You can actually put it anywhere you want. It is just fairly common
housekeeping practice to create a /home/username/bin directory as a
place to put executable files that you create -- as opposed to
executables that are installed by the system into /usr/bin, /usr/sbin,
/bin, etc. ...
Some people simply place self-created executables into /usr/local/bin
because that should already exist but it is world-readable so
executables intended for a single user are more commonly put somewhere
in that user's /home directory.
So, yes:
mkdir /home/btth/bin
mv /home/btth/alpine_helper.pl /home/btth/bin/
You may also want to check your /home/btth/.bash_profile to be certain
it includes a stanza like this somewhere (mine is at the bottom):
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
That will ensure you can use any executables you drop into your
/home/btth/bin directory without having to type the full path.
Gerald
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