Friday, April 17th, 2009
Ruby-xlst is one of those gems that has been known to throw curve balls during the installation process. This is usually because the gem has dependencies on libraries that are typically not installed on a system by default. On CentoOS 5.2 the following sequence of commands should do the ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The easiest way to set an environment variable in CentOS is to use export as in
$> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk.1.5.0_12
$> export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME
However, variables set in such a manner are transient i.e. they will disappear the moment you exit the shell. Obviously this is not helpful when setting environment variables that need to ...
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