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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:52 pm    Post subject: Setting zshell path in console [SOLVED] Reply with quote

How do I set $PATH in zshell in the console?

My understanding is that zsh sources /etc/profile *after* ~/.zshenv, so any $PATH setting in the latter will be overwritten by the former. In other distros, I've fixed this by changing how /etc/profile sets $PATH, but in Gentoo I haven't been able to get it to work.

I want to add $HOME/bin and $HOME/scripts to $PATH and have those available in the console.

Edit:
What has always worked in other distros is to change /etc/profile in this way:
replace "PATH=..."
with "PATH=$PATH:..."

In Gentoo, /etc/profile already does this, but my PATH settings from ~/.zshenv are not recognised in the console.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Proper place to do it is in ~/.zshrc

Mine zshrc has:
Code:
if ! [[ "${PATH}" =~ "^${HOME}/bin" ]]; then
   export PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
fi
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If your new paths are fixed, that is, they do not change for every user, then in gentoo you are supposed to use the /etc/env.d directory. Create a file called /etc/env.d/99mypath with the following contents
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PATH="/home/<user>/bin"
PATH="/home/<user>/scripts"
Then, run env-update and finally run exec zsh.

As far as I know, zsh in Gentoo does not read /etc/profile. It reads /etc/zsh/zprofile. So, any modifications you want to make directly to the profile file must be made in the /etc/zsh directory.

env-update updates /etc/profile.env which is read by both bash and zsh. That is why if you make a single change to a file in /etc/env.d, it will be reflected in both bash and zsh shells.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

but /etc/profile.d/*.sh is.

Anyway, profile(.d) is executed only on login shells, so it may not exec it if you use gui login managers etc.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SlashBeast wrote:
Anyway, profile(.d) is executed only on login shells, so it may not exec it if you use gui login managers etc.


No login manager, just the console. The path works fine once I start my WM and urxvt, but not in the console.

The file /etc/zsh/zprofile has the same "PATH=...${PATH}" as /etc/profile, yet the $PATH in console doesn't register the directories in $HOME.

ppurka's suggestion (file in /etc/env.d/) seems to have worked.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, there was a frackup with zsh some weeks ago, check your /etc/zsh if you dont have zshenv there, if you do, remove it and leave zprofile only there. That's what messing $PATH.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SlashBeast wrote:
Well, there was a frackup with zsh some weeks ago, check your /etc/zsh if you dont have zshenv there, if you do, remove it and leave zprofile only there. That's what messing $PATH.


Nope, only zprofile.

The frackup was probably before I installed Gentoo.
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