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

[giulio benincasa]

Many thanks to you;

Best regards
Giulio

2006/11/13, Filipi Vianna <filipi at pucrs.br>:
> 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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