[Radiance-general] can't get the PATH, RAYPATH and MANPATH set correctly

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

Having Radiance in /usr/local/bin as well as /usr/local/radiance/bin can be problematic, even with a tightly configured environment. Your initial change to .profile *should* have worked though, i.e., "which gensky" should have found the one in /usr/local/radiance/bin. My guess is you didn't source ~/.profile or start a new terminal window before trying the "which" command. Or maybe the order the way you have it there is wrong. Personally I start with the existing path and append /usr/local/radiance/bin to that. I'm with Ehsan, you may want to start clean (unfortunately there's no clean way to uninstall Radiance), reinstall, and add the following to your environment (personally I make these changes to ~/.bash_profile):

## Radiance path crap
export PATH=$PATH:.:/usr/local/radiance/bin
export RAYPATH=.:/usr/local/radiance/lib
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/radiance/doc

HTH
- Rob


On 10/23/14, 7:24 AM, "Ehsan M.Vazifeh" <em.vazifeh at gmail.com<mailto:em.vazifeh at gmail.com>> wrote:

I guess its better to cleanup all the radiance files from bin and install it from scratch! I assume you used the link below:
http://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/installation-information

Hope this help.

Bests,
Ehsan

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Joe Smith <the.oat.cracker at gmail.com<mailto:the.oat.cracker at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi, Ehsan, yes, I also tried using "sudo pico ~/.profile", but the problem is still the same:

No feedback when I typied "which gensky" in terminal, although it is in the folder /usr/local/radiance/bin ...

Any advices?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Ehsan Vazifeh <em.vazifeh at gmail.com<mailto:em.vazifeh at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I guess you should use sudo before pico. cuz without sudo you cant save the .profile

Cheers,
Ehsan

On 23 Oct 2014, at 14:56, Joe Smith <the.oat.cracker at gmail.com<mailto:the.oat.cracker at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi, I don't seem to be able to get the my Radiance environment variable set correctly after the following steps:

1. install the latest Radiance 4.2.1 for Mac which is installed to the /usr/local/radiance folder.

2. use "pico ~/.profile" to edit .profile and add the following lines:
export PATH=/usr/local/radiance/bin:$PATH
export RAYPATH=.:/usr/local/radiance/lib
export MANPATH=/usr/local/radiance/man

However, when I type "which gensky" in the terminal, it still points me to the path of gensky in a different location: "/usr/local/bin" where copies of some Radiance programs are put previously.

I wonder why the editing of .profile didn't work in this case even if I restarted my computer ...

So, can I have some advices on how to:
1. clear up earlier copies of Radiance programs
2. do a clean installation of Radiance
3. and set its environmental variables correctly?

Thanks!


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