Symbolic Links

[BigManPeter]

Hi everyone,

I am brand new to Linux and am struggling with symbolic links. I need to set up a FORTRAN compiler (my advisor is requiring me to do this in Linux), and I am using g95. I've un-tared the files into an installation directory, and now want to create a link to the compiler. Here is what I am trying to do:

ln -s /home/peter/g95-install/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-g95 /home/peter/g95-install/bin/g95
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/peter/g95-install/bin/g95': No such file or directory

When I look in the directory, there is no link. My end goal is to be able to use commands like:

g95 -c helloworld.f90

to compile and run FORTRAN programs. Anyone have any help? Thanks for your time.

EDIT: I am using openSuse 11.3

[linuxaria]

You can do an alias:

Add in .bashrc
alias g95='/home/peter/g95-install/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-g95'

Save teh change.

After that use the command
source .bashrc

And you should be done

EDIT: I don't work on opensuse, but i suppose you have a .bashrc, otherwise check for a .profile