Questions tagged [paths]
Questions related to path in networking, file system and OS.
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MGLTools Segmentation Fault
I'm currently working as an intern for computational chemistry. One of the applications that we need is MGLTools which I installed using this website:
https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/mgltools/...
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Terminal is neither showing path nor working
The default terminal and the VS code Terminal are neither showing path nor working.
I have updated the system, cleared the cache, reinstalled the terminal, installed the new other terminals, and saw ...
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Setting PATH variable in /etc/environment vs .profile
Where is the preferred place to set the PATH envvar?
~/.profile or /etc/environment?
What is the case when PATH is set in both places?
Is the end result a concatenation of both values set in those ...
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Problem in executing terminal commands
Command 'sed' is available in the following places
* /bin/sed
* /usr/bin/sed
The command could not be located because '/usr/bin:/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
sed: command ...
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Help to open tibia on ubuntu 24.04. QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
I'm trying to install tibia on my computer. I always receive the following error when I try to run the program. Can someone help me?
input:
sudo ./Tibia
output:QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set,...
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How can I add ~/.local/bin to my PATH?
I'm just trying to follow this tutorial and set up my environment. My system is WSL Ubuntu 18.04. Here is already an answer on my question, but I as an absolute novice in Linux/UNIX don't know which ...
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How to change the path of folders in home directory to an external HDD?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I'm trying to change the path from the special folders (I mean the ones in my home directory) to folders on my external HDD.
I already auto-mounted the HDD by adding a UUID-...
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How is ~/.local/bin getting on my PATH
I noticed an anomaly with how my PATH is being configured on a new install of 22.04. Initially ~/.local/bin appeared twice. I reduced it to one time by commenting out the relevant block in ~/....
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How to give general users access to programs installed in another user area, not global directory
I've installed a package (according to the instructions) but noticed it didn't install the binary into the /usr/bin directory, but instead into the user area.
What's the best way to give other users ...
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Where is my Imagemagick installed?
I tried to locate it with locate imagemagick
My result is this :
/etc/bash_completion.d/imagemagick
/usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-common
/...
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Can't launch Qt Creator in Ubuntu 18.04
My environment initially had qt4 and Qt Creator seemed to work fine back then. I installed qt5 and after that Qt Creator does not launch anymore. Qt Creator works fine in my virtual machine however.
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systemd PATH not working consistently
I have a very simple systemd service:
[Unit]
Description=throttle service
[Service]
ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/throttle --server
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=default....
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Help repairing broken Python base on Linux with Miniedit-WiFi setup
I previously uninstalled Python3.12 (on which I had ran Miniedit-WiFi
tool) and left the default Python3.11; however the following
console-log error keeps popping out whenever I run a Python script on ...
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How to make ubuntu understand a windows-style folder path as a folder on windows partition?
I have ubuntu and Win7 on dual boot.
On windows, a use a program that is set to save things on a given windows folder (like "D:\some folder").
On ubuntu, I can run this exact same program (it's not a ...
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tmux errors running bash commands due to path
When I run $tmux and open an instance of a tmux session and try to run a command such as ls I receive the following error:
∆ ls
Command 'ls' is available in the following places
* /bin/ls
* /usr/bin/...
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Find default library paths location in Ubuntu
I'm on an Ubuntu 22.04 system and I'm working with C language and libraries.
I know (from different books, included "The Linux Programming Interface" by Kerrisk) that this algorithm is used ...
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Desktop file doesn't work
I'm trying to make a desktop file for vcvRack. I have the program and other files saved in ~/.Rack/. The program launches fine when I double click it or launch in from terminal using ./Rack.
The file ~...
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Latex Workshop error: Cannot find LaTeX root file
I recently changed from Windows to Ubuntu because I'm learning to code. I used to write my class assignments in LaTeX using vscode and Latex Workshop. However, I've tried to set it up in Ubuntu and I'...
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How to get the path for a new USB drive
Recently I installed a 2TB usb drive on Ubuntu 20.04, and copied some files onto it. Now I would like to read those files in a Python program, but I can't get the path to the new drive.
The drive is /...
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Use php command instead of full path with xampp installation?
I have Xubuntu installation and XAMPP installed on my PC, and everything works great. However, lately I am experimenting a little bit with Laravel framework and a lot of tutorials and people just use ...
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How to solve "Please make sure libcudnn_cnn_infer.so.8 is in your library path!" (WSL Ubuntu)
When I try to run a PyTorch program, it fails:
Could not load library libcudnn_cnn_infer.so.8. Error: libcuda.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please make sure ...
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gsutil bashrc file path setting
Actually I have just installed gsutil by following the instructions here.
But now when I am typing gsutil at command prompt I am getting following:
No command was given.
Choose one of -b, -d, -e, or ...
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Pycharm does not launch from other directory even after editing .bashrc, .profile and .environment
I downloaded PyCharm, and from the directory where the executable pycharm.sh is, it works fine, however, whenever I do sudo vim ~/.profile, sudo vim ~/.bashrc, and add export PATH="$HOME/pycharm-...
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Why does c++ app launched from the Netbeans use Netbeans install dir?
When I run a simple application that uses a library, Ogre3D in my case, from NetBeans, it breaks with the following message:
Error occurred during execution: InternalErrorException:
Could not load ...
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Where can I add to the ***universal*** path?
I'm a script kiddie of sorts and enjoy writing bash scripts for things, and I keep them in a repository that I synchronize, and on my personal computers I keep it in a home/otherStuff/customBin folder,...
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I am having issue while installing Flutter in Ubuntu 20.04
I used snap to install flutter, i.e. sudo snap install flutter --classic
After when I run flutter sdk-path it shows the following.
The same happened when I tried manually downloading the .zip, ...
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How to remove a particular bin from path/auto-complete?
I don't have sudo privileges on my work laptop and tmuxinator is installed, but I wish to use tmuxifier instead. I successfully installed the latter (without needing sudo by using git), but now, ...
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Snap Paths Aren't Listed Properly
Note: I am using the example of discord but this is for all snap apps that i installed from the software center.
I needed NodeJs for something and had to go through alot of steps as it simply would ...
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KDE applications installed through plasma-discover not showing, must be launched through Software Center
KDE version: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Plasma Discover Version: 5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
I rebooted my PC and afterwards, any applications I had previously installed through plasma-discover (https://userbase.kde....
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Error while trying to install Nvidia drivers
Getting this error:
Unable to find the development tool make in your
path; please make sure that you have the package
'make' installed. If make is installed on your
system, then please check that ...
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Accidentally changed PATH variable and I cant change it back, or use vim etc..help
I know there are many questions like this, but I unfortunately dont know enough about Ubuntu to be able to apply it to my situation. I have all my stuff saved for work on a remote machine, that i ...
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Adding simple shortcut on the terminal, the right way
I am trying to add folder to PATH variable (for specific user only).
so to ~/.bashrc i have added
export PATH=$PATH:/home/username/Tools/scripts/
within this folder i am having scripts and some ...
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Keyboard shortcuts don't see my custom executable
On Ubuntu 22.04 I have an executable (bash) file in custom folder scripts in the home. The path of the latter is properly included at the end of the .bashrc file (and also at the end of the .profile ...
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Where is WSL located on my computer?
I am new to Windows and have installed WSL2 based on the instructions provided here.
It works fine, but I cannot locate where it has been installed on my computer. The output for pwd is home/nkp68.
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Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for with symlinks
As per the Ubuntu documentation - the only way to permanently set LD_LIBRARY_PATH is by adding a conf file to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
If I manually run export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/nextcloudapp/squashfs-root/...
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flatpak program - add to path such that terminal knows the program
I can usually fire op blender via the terminal by executing blender. This worked out of the box, when using snap. However, the version in snap was very old so I found a newer version in flatpak.
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Zip2john issue on ubuntu 18.04 LTS [duplicate]
Problem:
root@ITSASECRET:~/src/john/run# zip2john
: command not found
I want to add that the srcript is in the directory. I also had a lot of trouble installing Rexgen as well as Bison and ...
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Ubuntu CLI, replace a long filepath/filename with a shortcut
I have a long path to some of my files and I don't want to type and/or use the Tab-key as much when using it with commands in the Terminal.
So I want to add "shortcuts" to some of them (both ...
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ns3 installation error
NS3_MODULE_PATH = ['/usr/local/sbin', '/usr/local/bin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/sbin', '/bin', '/usr/games', '/usr/local/games', '/usr/lib/wsl/lib', '/mnt/c/Program Files/Common Files/Oracle/Java/...
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PATH not working even after successfully modifying it
For some reason I am successful in adding new directories to my $PATH but when I run the commands in the terminal the $PATH doesn't summon them.
I modified the $PATH in the ~/.bashrc file, and added ...
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How to create an alias for a "cat" file usable in a path
I have two huge files (150G each) and I need to use a tool for which I should supply them as a single file (since the tool only accepts one file). However, I do not want to merge these files for ...
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Start intellij from anywhere
I have recently installed Ubuntu and I'm a bit confused.
I have downloaded VSCode and I can simply start it from my terminal using code.
I downloaded intellij and tried idea and intellij but none of ...
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No such file or directory when running sqlplus command
root@instance-20220315-0833:/usr/lib/oracle/19.10/client64/bin# ls
adrci genezi sqlplus
root@instance-20220315-0833:/usr/lib/oracle/19.10/client64/bin# ls -al
sqlplus
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72384 ...
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How do I use sudo on a script I made myself that is already in my path and executable?
How do I make a script that I made myself that I already put in my path and made executable usable with sudo? (Xubuntu 22.04.1.)
The script is located here: ~/bin/myScript.
When, from an arbitrary ...
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adding files to ~/.local/bin doesn't add it to the $PATH
I've added fm6000 file to the ~/.local/bin folder assuming it'll be the same as adding it to /usr/bin folder. Though that's not the case. There are many files in ~/.local/bin folder that don't work. I'...
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How to remove a directory's path from the enviroment variable PATH permanently?
I just removed the miniconda3's folder from home/username/, now i want to remove its path from my $PATH variable permanently.
As you can see below, it's the first one:
/home/username/miniconda3/bin:/...
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In concatenating two variables, the system expands the resulting path and returns unexpected results. How do I prevent this?
Question 2.0:
Given the code:
SSLPasswordFilePath="$SSLFilesDir$SSLPasswordFile"
When I run:
"$SSLPasswordFilePath"
I get this unexpected result:
/tmp/ConfigFiles/SSL/Password....
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PATH and sources.list issue
I have discovered an issue with PATH and /ect/apt/sources.list Please could you advise how to resolve it?
As I am very novice to coding and stack exchange please could you comment and let me know ...
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OpenSSL and includePath problem
I have been encountering this problem for a few weeks now, ever since I started working on my projects. There is a red line under all of my #include lines.
Red lines under #include:
I narrowed the ...
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How to find python installation directory on Ubuntu
I have just migrated from Windows environment. I have installed Python 3.2 in a separate directory. How can I get the python installation path in Ubuntu shell?
Is there any way I can let the shell ...
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