It should be ~/.bashrc (unless you are using another shell than bash),
you need to "source ~/.bashrc" to get immediate effect in the current
shell session.


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:32:08PM +0200, Alan Stone wrote:
> There's a /home/alan/.bashrc so I've put the command line there... doesn't work
> either.
> 
> Will research about how to proceed with the PATH alternative.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Alan Stone wrote:
>     > - Ubuntu 8.04
>     >
>     > According to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals
>     > I installed the context minimals in
>     >
>     > /opt/context
>     >
>     > then ( after some research about its definition and use ) created a
>     >
>     > .bash_profile
> 
>     .bash_profile works for Mac OS X. Maybe it's .bashrc on your distro? I
>     have no idea what Linux distributions out there use to initialize
>     bash. (Are you using bash or sh or maybe something else?)
> 
>     In any case you need to open a new terminal once you do the changes.
> 
>     An alternative should be to put the binary path into PATH.
> 
>     Mojca
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