Making software available via the .bashrc file

Software can be made available using your .bashrc file and adding/editing any relevant environment variables.

Caution

We do not recommend editing your .bashrc file as this could result in corrupting your shell environment. If possible make use of the modules system.

Assuming you have installed your software in a folder with the path $HOME/software/installs/mysoftware and the software has added a bin and lib folder. You would adjust your file to be:

export PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

If you are installing libraries and software that are dependencies, using 64 bit software, need to set a variable for a license server/file etc… you may also need to use other environment variables pointing at different paths e.g.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib64:$LIBRARY_PATH

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

export ACLOCAL_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/share/aclocal:$ACLOCAL_PATH

export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/:$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH

export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
export CPATH=$HOME/software/installs/mysoftware/include:$CPATH

export MY_SOFTWARE_LICENSE_PATH=$HOME/software/licenses/mysoftware/license.lic