Colin Kilbane wrote:
>
> How do you set your environment so that you can run a particular program
> such as acrobat, from any current working directory?
That depends on your shell. Most of the time, your shell is bash. Some
people like tcsh. In anycase, you have to set the enviorment variable PATH.
For bash, do something like
export PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/bin/:/opt/bin:/path/to/acrobat/reader
This command sets PATH to be whatever PATH is currently set to plus
/home/username/bin, /opt/bin, and /path/to/acrobat/reader
A default user PATH should be set to something like
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
The superuser will generally have /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbian as
well.
Type echo $PATH to see what you're path is currently set to.
> In addition how can
> you assign a particular file format a default reader?
You have to edit your mime types. If your using GNOME, you can do this via
the GNOME Control Center. KDE probally has similar functionality.
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