how to make a program available to user? [solved]

[ffi]

There are some program that I can run as root but not as user, eg:

 

$ rar

bash: rar: command not found

 

but when I run as root I can access rar.

Edited August 7, 2006 by ffi

[Urza9814]

Well, generally there's a reason you can't run them as a user...

You could always just do use sudo or something....maybe...don't actually know if that'd work....

 

Try 'locate [command]' to find where it is and just run if from there.

For example, I know urpmi can only be run as root....I did 'locate urpmi', lotta results, one being /usr/sbin/urpmi....

 

[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ urpmi
bash: urpmi: command not found
[urza9814@Arochone ~]$ /usr/sbin/urpmi
urpmi version 4.7.15
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mandriva.
This is free software and may be redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
...

 

They might all be under /usr/sbin, I'm really not sure...just a bit of exploration on my part...hope it helps :)

[ffi]

Yes, but I need this program to run, its located in /usr/local/bin I tried permissions and stuff but it wont run. When I enter ra + rab it auto-completes but my user finds nothing, there are other programs in the same dir which my user does auto-complete.

 

I need to be able to run it without path, so I can use rar as a backend for graphical archivers....

 

edit: this is not true, i had some duplicates. So the question really should by how can I make my user look in /usr/local/bin like root can?

Edited August 7, 2006 by ffi

[tyme]

edit .bash_profile and add /usr/local/bin to your path:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

assuming PATH isn't being set and exported already in your .bash_profile - if it is, then just add :/usr/local/bin to the end of the PATH=$PATH:* line.

 

you could also allow all users to access /usr/local/bin by editing the file /etc/profile similarly.

[ffi]

edit .bash_profile and add /usr/local/bin to your path:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

assuming PATH isn't being set and exported already in your .bash_profile - if it is, then just add :/usr/local/bin to the end of the [/i]PATH=$PATH:*[/i] line.

Hmm, this in part worked, I can now access rar from command line but xarchiver still doesnt work. Maybe it needs to know the path too :s

Edited August 7, 2006 by ffi

[tyme]

where is xarchiver located? also, be sure to run:

source /etc/profile

after any changes to .bash_profile or /etc/profile

[ffi]

Both as user and root, I get

 

# source /etc/profile

-bash: TMOUT: readonly variable

 

xarchiver is in /usr/bin

[tyme]

if xarchiver is in /usr/bin then it should already be in your path. try logging out and back in and see if it helps any.

[ffi]

if xarchiver is in /usr/bin then it should already be in your path. try logging out and back in and see if it helps any.

Yes. it works. Thanks :)

Edited August 7, 2006 by ffi