I'm guessing you're using the "sudo" command to do stuff in the amber11
directory, since it's located in a (traditionally root-controlled)
directory: /usr/local.
The implications of this have been extensively discussed in the very recent
past on this list, with the ultimate conclusion being that this is a *bad*
idea, due to what the spawned root shell does and/or does not inherit from
the shell that launched it.
Your two options are: use "sudo -E " when applying bugfixes so that the root
shell inherits your environment variables.
My personal suggestion, change the ownership of your amber11 directory to
your user name and *DON'T* use sudo at all (except as needed to change
ownership, of course).
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/amber11
Then apply bug fixes as normal.
All the best,
Jason
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Julia Romanowska <jrom.icm.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install Amber11 and I have a problem with applying bufixes.
> I have set the AMBERHOME:
>
> [amber11]$ echo $AMBERHOME
> /usr/local/amber11
>
> but the script is complaining:
>
> [amber11]$ sudo ./apply_bugfix.x bugfix.all
> Applying all bugfixes in AMBERHOME=/usr/local/amber11
> AMBERHOME environment variable not set.
> Cannot continue.
>
> I have noticed that the script is written in bash, so I have added to
> /etc/bashrc the setting of $AMBERHOME, but it still doesn't work.
>
> Maybe I'm making some stupid mistake... Could anybody help me?
> Best,
>
> Julia Romanowska
>
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