[galaxy-dev] how to set PATH variable

Ry4an Brase ry4an+galaxy at msi.umn.edu
Wed Nov 3 17:24:18 EDT 2010


On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:19:03PM -0400, David Hoover wrote:
> I'm trying to enable the EMBOSS tools, and Galaxy is complaining it
> can't find the executables.  Our local installation of EMBOSS is in a
> non-standard location (/usr/local/emboss/bin).  I tried setting the
> $PATH variable in ~/.bashrc_profile and ~/.profile, but this had no
> effect.  Where can I add the path to the EMBOSS tools so that Galaxy
> can find them?

I set ours directly in run.sh.  Make sure you use 'export' so it alters
subprocesses too.

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