[esp-r] Re: ESP-r running on UBUNTU

[Filipi Vianna]

Giulio,

I run ESRU on a Debian workstation. And I already did a couple
of experiences on Ubuntu.

Usually the .bash_profile is scanned when you start up a new
bash login shell from a terminal application. What is happening
is that your terminal application isn't starting your login shell.

The default terminal application on Debian and Ubuntu is the 
"Gnome Terminal", and the "Gnome Terminal" doesn't starts a
login shell by default. To change that, you should go to the
"Edit" menu, then click on "Profiles...". When the profiles window
has open, select the "Default" and then click on the "Edit" button.
Then a configuration window will open. So you have to select the
"Title and Command" tab, where there is a check box for
"Run command as a login shell", check this check box, click on
the "Close" button for this window and then click on the "Close"
button on the profiles window.

So, with this configuration, every time you starts a new terminal,
the gnome terminal will run a new login shell and will read the
.bash_profile file.

I hope it helps,

Best regards,

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:03 +0000, Jon Hand (clcv10) wrote:
> A recent question about starting up ESP-r on Ubuntu...
> 
> > I'm a very beginner of UNIX environment and have installed ESP-r 11.1
> > on UBUNTU 6.06
> >
> > but to run esp-r I have to every time repeat from the terminal the  
> > operation
> >
> > gedit ~/.bash_profile
> >
> > source ~/.bash_profile
> >
> 
> ESRU do not have this particular Linux distribution so we can
> only comment in general about operating system questions.
> 
> The file .bash_profile should be scanned when you start up
> a command window IF the command shell you are using is
> a bash shell (Linux distributions tend to come with a variety
> of different command shells).
> 
> Use whatever application Ubuntu offers for managing user
> accounts and look in the user accounts settings to see which
> shell is started up by default and if it is not a bash shell try
> changing this over to see if it works better.
> 
> -ESRU
> 
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