cannot run program

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Hi,

I have a program in /opt/local/bin, my path in my .profile is

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

however when i type the program name it cannot find it, however i know the program is in /opt/local/bin?

Thanks

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run export in command line and see if it works

3

Hi,

Yes that works fine, i've pasted that into my .bash_profile and it works fine now.

Cheers