Shashank Sawant

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May 26	accepted	Is there a GUI to edit the PATH variable?
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May 26	revised	How to open ~/.pam_environment? Corrected grammar errors, capitalization errors, punctuation. Also improved the formatting.
May 26	comment	Is there a GUI to edit the PATH variable? Thanks! I will try it out.
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May 26	comment	Is there a GUI to edit the PATH variable? Yeah... mostly I am doing something wrong. But that is where my question lies: which is the surest way to set the PATH variable? My current method is to execute "PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux:$PATH". But after I reboot, the systems forgets the above assignment.
May 26	comment	How to open ~/.pam_environment? I am having this problem too. Even for me the file .pam_environment doesn't exist. I too referred to the same link. One good point to note is that you can press Ctrl + H to show the hidden files. This is a general recommendation - it won't solve your current problem as the file is simply not there.
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May 26	comment	Is there a GUI to edit the PATH variable? In windows there's one place you can go to and edit the path variable. That edit will always work (even after system reboot). But because of all the problems windows has, I hate it. I like Ubuntu but currently I am trying to learn how Ubuntu overcomes the problems in windows. PATH variable has been a thing which has confused me a lot (especially the un-Pythonic way in which it is handled - there's no one way of editing it, every blog recommends a new method).
May 26	comment	Is there a GUI to edit the PATH variable? My current objective is to set the PATH variable to: "/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux". But after I close the session, the system forgets the value of the PATH variable. So to initiate a simple task of running Latex on Ubuntu, I have to go to the folder, copy the path and set the variable each time I have to start using it. So I read different solutions to this problem. Some say edit bashrc, some say edit bash_profile, others say simply profile and some say edit bash_login. In all of this I am confused as to where PATH variable (which is guaranteed to load on login) located!
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May 18	comment	How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout? There cannot be a better answer!
May 18	accepted	How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout?
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May 17	comment	How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout? Got it. I will frame a new question. Even then here's a short explanation of what I meant: In windows, the .exe files can be easily located. For example: "C:\Python27\python.exe". So I know where the program Python starts from. Now if I have to use the Eclipse IDE, I can simply point it to python.exe, and this is what I meant by "configure". I configured the IDE for Python. In Ubuntu where's the location where the program is installed? That is what still evades me.
May 17	comment	How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout? Thanks for all your answers. I am a bit confused about a few points: In Windows the setup usually provides through a prompt an option to install a software for all users. How to make that distinction in Ubuntu? Also, this is a usual problem in configuring development softwares to their IDEs. In windows, for example, in "program files\miktex\bin" there's the file "pdflatex.exe". Thus I can point the IDE to this file and configure it. How to go about this process in Ubuntu? Where's the general binary file associated with a software (esp. from the configuration point of view)?