From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T23:27:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Linux install of 1.8.2

On 9/26/05, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote:
> >>>>> "M" == Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> writes:
>
> M> It assumes that I installed Ruby in /usr/local.  I don't have
> M> permission to do that.  I installed it under my home directory.  How
> M> can I tell it to look there instead?
>
>  Change the PATH variable, something like (if it's in $HOME/local/bin)
>
>   export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH

I had already done that. The problem is that changing PATH doesn't
change what's in the default LOAD_PATH. When I run "ruby -e 'puts
$LOAD_PATH' " it outputs the same thing it did for you where all the
directories start with /usr/local/lib/ruby.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.