[Xserve@home]

For some reason on this iBook of mine apt-get and the whole /sw dir is not in my path. 'env' gives me this...

Code:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

... as my path.

I want to add /sw, but where is the .login or .bashrc file to edit? Right now I have nothing special going, and no special shells. I just fire up Terminal and go.

Any help appreciated!!

Edit: I ran the path config tool included with the installer, but it still doesn't work properly...

[P]

Check what's in your home directory by typing

ls-lA

to show invisible files. If there are no .login or .bashrc files, create them and add the path (I assume you have instruction on how to do that ?).

[Tesseract]

First run

Code:
echo $SHELL

to find out what shell you are using. If it's bash, execute

Code:
echo 'export PATH=/sw/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile

to add the path setup line to your bash_profile startup file.

[Xserve@home]

My default shell is tcsh which I don't want

Do I change it somewhere in /etc ?

[rwhiffen]

To change your shell:
http://forums.macnn.com/archive/t-141539.html

But be careful. Some installer scripts might assume the shell you're running to be tcsh... Small risk, but it is possible. As long as you remember you've changed you shell it probably won't be too big a deal. I play it safe and have an "exec /bin/ksh" in my .bash_profile (I'm running tiger, they changed the default from 10.3 to 10.4) You could similarly edit the .cshrc to do the same. Just make sure you edit a shell specific version of the file. For example, bash, ksh and sh all use .profile. If you changed .profile you'd get stuck in a never ending loop of execs.

Cheers,

Rich

[Xserve@home]

Thanks for the info rwhiffen I'll look into that.

For some reason the default shell on that iBook is tcsh, but here on my Pismo it's bash

[Tesseract]

bash became the default shell of OS X with the 10.3 release. If you did an upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3, user accounts kept their shell setting (which was tcsh by dfault) while accounts created after installing 10.3, or on machines with a clean 10.3 install, defaulted to bash.

[Xserve@home]

Okay that would make sense. I've had the iBook since 2003 and used Jaguar on it back then.

[Xserve@home]

I got it to work. I changed my default shell to bash, then ran the path setup program that comes with the Fink installer. The path setup app said it didn't work, but it did.

Thanks for the help