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Ok. So, I'm used to Ubuntu and CentOS more than redhat, so I'm hoping there's some obvious solution to this that I'm missing.

I've installed Anaconda (Python). I've placed it in:

/opt/anaconda3

I would like for myself and all users to be able to have the following in their paths:

/opt/anaconda3/bin

I have googled around and have gained a lot of conflicting information about how to "properly" accomplish my mission.

Stuff I have tried:

  1. Adding a bash script to /etc/profile.d
  2. Editing /etc/profile
  3. Editing /etc/bashrc
  4. Adding to root bashrc
  5. Editing user .bashrc

All edits involved some form of:

PATH=/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

or

export PATH=/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

Option 2 yielded the addition of /opt/anaconda3/bin to the path for multiple users, but after terminal restarts still did not run the commands within bin (i.e. conda install, ipython notebook, etc.)

Any ideas?

0xSheepdog
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Audrey
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  • You are not using csh ? ( see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/238706/how-to-set-path-for-r-installed-in-my-directory ) – Archemar Oct 27 '15 at 14:13

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Create a file named (say) anaconda.sh in /etc/profile.d/ with the contents:

PATH=/opt/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

The trailing ".sh" is important, as that is the syntax that /etc/profile uses to search for files to include. Bash will read /etc/profile at login. If you want a current shell/terminal to pick up the change, just run . /etc/profile.d/anaconda.sh.

If you encounter situations where a non-interactive shell needs it, you're left with ~/.bashrc (unless the calling environment uses --rcfile to override that behavior).

Jeff Schaller
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Append the path to the file paths mentioned in the /etc/environment file.

This is loaded first before the local users directory .bashrc file is loaded so its the best place to set system wide vars.

Christian Papathanasiou
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