OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux Caludra 1.41 Question{help}

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jul 18, 2001
• 405 views

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 16:31, pmosley at infoway.lib.nm.us wrote:

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> Ok I think I found problem 1
> I installed it as root Can you do that?
> I tried to install it as dave but could not write to the profile file
> the path and eudir things.I could only do it as root

You can certainly install Euphoria as a user, and you should. Otherwise,
the files will belong to 'root' and users won't be able to get to them.
The .bashrc file is the one in *your* home directory, and you should be 
able to edit this with any editor.  I suggest you add the following lines to 
the bottom of .bashrc (the dot means it's a hidden file, to see it in a 
directory listing, type ls -a 

# The following are for Euphoria:
EUDIR=/home/david/euphoria
PATH=/home/david/euphoria/bin:$PATH
export EUDIR PATH

# Change the font so ms-dos line drawing characters will be used
# for Dave's EE edior:
echo -e "\\033(U"

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> >  ls -l euphoria/bin/exu should show you as owner of exu
> >  with permissions of -rwxr-xr-x
>
> This has this drwxr-xr-x

If euphoria/bin/exu has the permissions of d...... that means it's a 
directory, not a file. Can't run a directory.

> Thanks for the help,I think that some how it got me into a group I do
> not know if this is ok or not and if so how do I get out.
> Thanks

You got to be in a group, more than one, usually. You probably want to 
be in the group users.  All of that should have been set up automatically 
when you (as root) did a useradd. If things are really screwed up, you can 
create a *new* user, dave, for example, and get a fresh start. 

Regards,
Irv