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Subject:    Re: [Fink-beginners] pathset up & can't modify my .profile file
From:       "Alexander K. Hansen" <akh () finkproject ! org>
Date:       2007-03-07 16:24:50
Message-ID: 45EEE752.6010706 () finkproject ! org
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Mark Cassano wrote:
> Thanks Martin; I should have said I have everything updated. I  
> followed the http://www.finkproject.org/download/ to the letter. I  
> have Powerbook running 10.4.8 hence I used Fink 0.8.1 PowerPC  
> installer. The Fink commander tells me my fink is 0.24.23.-3;
>
> I'm getting a little scared of fooling around with these files  
> without knowing what I'm doing - so I might just make sure I like  
> Python (which is running fine, whether Scipy is I'll soon find out)  
> before I proceed (or wait until I get a new Mac Book!).
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Mark
>
>   
That's a file that _should_ be owned by you, because it's essentially a 
user preference.  Martin's command changes the owner of the file to 
you.  Nothing fancier than that.
> On Mar 7, 2007, at  2:02 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>   
>> Mark Cassano wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings,
>>> Hope this wasn't in the archives which I can't access as I'm  
>>> getting  a "500 - Internal Service Error".
>>> My problem has to do with getting my path set up. I ran the  
>>> pathsetup  utility and it didn't work. Something about "the code  
>>> put into my  profile having no effect" and I should check my bash  
>>> startup scripts.  I've tried to modify my profile with pico (this  
>>> was to get another  program, Octave, to run) and was denied  
>>> permission also (I couldn't  save it). I should add that Python is  
>>> running fine but iPython is not  recognized (I get the, all too  
>>> familiar, "command not found"). I've  googled this to death & have  
>>> finally given up. Any help (links) would  be *greatly* appreciated!
>>>       
>> You don't say which version of OSX and of Fink you are running, but  
>> they must be old, since this problem has been fixed in the latest  
>> (already a year old) installer.
>>
>> Please run (in a Terminal window) the command
>>
>>   sudo chown $USER ~/.profile
>>
>> Then you will be able to modify the file.
>>
>> But it is perhaps not necessary to modify it, because the message  
>> about the code having no effect is probably bogus, part of the same  
>> bug that made your ~/.profile not owned by you.
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin
>>
>>     
>
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