need general help with setting paths & man paths for apps

[Rich Teer]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, solaris newbie wrote:

> Hello, basically what I know so far (which is limited ) is that I put in the
> path to installed apps in my path through editing the /etc/default/login
> script.

That is one way, but a (perhaps) beter way would be to modify
PATH in individual user's .profile.

> also when i installed gcc I added the installed app to my path, but after
> compiling there was a share folder and a man folder, I take it the man

They're not folders, they're directories.

> folder consists of the man pages so how do I add them to my path as in the
> man path also when installing apps I noticed some references to enviroment

The MANPATH environment variable tells the man command where
to search for man pages.

> variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.... How do I set these variables to there
> corresponding applications (permanantly).

You'll need to recompile those broken apps using the -R flag.
Using LD_RUN_PATH is not recommended practise, unless you have
no other alternative.

> Any advice on the enviroment variables or paths and what they link to and
> when(e.g I have been putting the .bin directorys in my path in mt
> /etc/default/login script) whould be appreciated.

As a rule, I wouldn't touch the system supplied defaults.
Instead, put them in individual user's .profile or .kshrc
(or other file depending on what shell they use).

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[solaris newbie]

Hello, basically what I know so far (which is limited ) is that I put in the
path to installed apps in my path through editing the /etc/default/login
script.

also when i installed gcc I added the installed app to my path, but after
compiling there was a share folder and a man folder, I take it the man
folder consists of the man pages so how do I add them to my path as in the
man path also when installing apps I noticed some references to enviroment
variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.... How do I set these variables to there
corresponding applications (permanantly).

Any advice on the enviroment variables or paths and what they link to and
when(e.g I have been putting the .bin directorys in my path in mt
/etc/default/login script) whould be appreciated.

regards
David