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DFO-Ocean-Navigator / Navigator-Installer

Home for the installation scripts/data for the Ocean Navigator.
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Make miniconda bin path to be set globally #5

Closed htmlboss closed 5 years ago

htmlboss commented 5 years ago

Instead of editing the installing user's ~/.bashrc, we will add a script to /etc/profile.d/. This will fix cases where multiple users wish to use a single installation and the miniconda path isn't set.

I'll be testing this change in a VM.

@dwayne-hart There's 2 schools of thought for global environment variables. There's the method I'm using, and there's also something about /etc/environment. Thoughts?

dwayne-hart commented 5 years ago

If this is going into production. I would look at using the global setting of creating custom scripts in /etc/profile.d. This will ensure that all accounts system and user specific get to access the same applications. For development, people should be able to use their .bashrc or .bash_profile so that they can either try new applications or use newer debugging tools.

dwayne-hart commented 5 years ago

The /etc/environment from what I can see is used by applications to define certain environment variables. On a Ubuntu VM my /etc/environment file contains two lines a PATH and JAVA_HOME definition. I would prefer the /etc/profile.d way.