Firstly, I am running Mandrake 8 and am rather new to Linux, after some time I have got Lime Wire to run but only by running <$/usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java -cp . RunLime>. I assume this is because java is not in my path, if it was I could just use <$sh runlime.sh>. So how do I add java to my path exacly? My .bash_profile file has no line for $PATH.... Is their a way I can run an <export $PATH=PATH*> to add it to my path? Thnx for any help

I had the same deal with Mandrake Linux 8.0, but I never bothered to ask. Can anyone out there explain for us?

i need hlp with this to. is any body gona post??

Dag blast it! Somebody must know how this is done!

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Path-3.html

Thanks, Sherrie! We all appreciate your post!
I'm finally getting it to work now. :-)

Just to add: good practice is to create a file /etc/profile.local which contains in one line the path settings for all users:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib/jre/bin

(Better not to edit /etc/profile, this change gets overwritten easily, esp. when using SuSE)