ROOT Installation set PATH [SOLVED]

[samuele_giuli]

Hi everyone,
I’m new and this question may seems a stupid question but I’ve a problem installing ROOT version 6.08/06 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 .
The root/README/README file says that i must add “. /root/bin/thisroot.sh” to my .profile file and what I have after I added the line is:
…
if [-f "$HOME/.bashrc]; then
. “$HOME/.bashrc”
. "~/root/bin/thisroot.sh"
fi
…
but when I run a new bash I must execute manually thisroot.sh to run Root.
Where have I made a mistake on the code?
Thanks for helping.

[Dilicus]

Hi,
in my bashrc I use this line,
source ~/root/bin/thisroot.sh.

Moreover I add

export ROOTSYS=~/root_v6.08.06
export PATH=$ROOTSYS/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ROOTSYS/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ROOTSYS/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Cheers,
Stefano

[Axel]

Why do you have this in the .bashrc if? I would expect that . "~/root/bin/thisroot.sh" outside an if should do.

Note that .profile is run once, when logging in, while .bashrc is run whenever bash is executed (e.g. when a new terminal is started). So you could add it to .bashrc, or you’ll need to log off and on again to test this.

[samuele_giuli]

Thank you I just solved in this way:

I added . “absolute-path” at the end of .bashrc and it works.
I can’t understand why it doesn’t work with “~/root/bin/thisroot.sh” or “$HOME/root/bin/thisroot.sh” but it does work with the absolute path and that’s enough.

Thank you.