./ to run a program

[j1s]

Hi.

Sorry if it's off topic.

I was wondering... What do I have do to to not having to put ./ in front of a program i've made... To run the program, that is.

regards

[meton_magis]

You could edit your environmental variable, $PATH, to include the current directory, .

so, add something like this to your ~/.bash_profile
PATH=$PATH:.

but it is not really a good idea. If you want to have programs you've made be in your path, move them to their own directory (I suggest $HOME/bin ) and put THAT in your path,
add this to your ~/.bash_profile
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

You want your path to be static, not dependent on relative paths, as it could cause things to act up, especialy if you start naming applications in 2 different areas by the same name.

[j1s]

Thank you very much.

J1s

[D-cat]

Another common thing is to place a symlink to a program in a directory in the path statement.

For example, typically, firefox installs in /usr/share/firefox or some distros spread it around (/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh), neither in the path statement, so to be able to invoke it from the CLI, there's a symlink in /usr/bin.

dcat@Server:/mnt/hdb1/fdi> ls -l /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2009-04-18 08:46 /usr/bin/firefox -> ../lib/firefox/firefox.sh

[shunmugasundaram2007]

i write sh file to install the software. they give some steps that are follows
1)tar xvfz myfile.tar.gz
2)cd myfile
3)./configure
4)make
5)make install
please give the explanation of these lines and give some code to a package to install the linux

[Kieren]

Hello shunmugasundaram2007

Your post is off topic to the current thread. Please create your own thread detailing your problem