Re: Configuring home/bin PATH directory

[J Martin Rushton]

On 13/11/18 08:31, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Keizen Li Qian wrote:
> 
>> Hello, 
>>
>> I installed 2.18.2 on a drive with a partitioned home directory which
>> had an old ~home/bin/lilypond. Somewhere the path had been set to this
>> directory so even after convert-ly successfully converted my old files
>> to 2.18, running lilypond still grabbed an old version in home/bin. After
>> renaming the old directory, I get bash: /home/bin/lilypond: No such
>> file or directory
>> I'd appreciate any detailed suggestions for updating this path and
>> finding information like this. Thank you!
>>
>> Keizen
> 
> Hi Keizen,
> 
> ~home/bin/lilypond or /home/bin/lilypond doesn't look right to me
> 
> I would expect something like ~/bin/lilypond or /home/${USER}/bin/lilypond
> 
> In a terminal what does
> 
>     which lilypond
> 
> return? And what did you expect it to return?
> 
> And what do you get if you type
> 
>     echo $HOME
> 
> Also check files like .bashrc and .bash_profile in you HOME directory.
> 
> I am talking Linux (Fedora) here, you did not mention what OS you use.

OP quoted the error message: "bash: /home/bin/lilypond: No such file or
directory", so I think we can all safely assume Linux or something like
Cygwin.

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