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Re: Gnome 3: Games not launching because of path environment

 

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 04:09 +0200, Viktor Basso wrote:
> Im not sure if i should post it as a bug or something so i thought i
> should send an email instead.
> 
> After a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04 x64, and installing Gnome 3 with
> the gnome 3 ppa everything seemed fine.
> (except the theme issue, which was resolved without a fuss)
> 
> The included games like mines were working.
> 
> But installing new games like supertux and openarena from the terminal
> or USC, and launching them from the application list in gnome shell
> wont work.
> And when running the game in terminal it gives me:
> 
> "not available in "/usr/games/"whatevergame"
> The command could not be located because '/usr/games' is not included
> in the PATH environment variable.
> 
> I checked my /etc/environment and it says:
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
> 
and on the terminal, what does 'echo $PATH' show?

it seems something is setting a different PATH, maybe gdm3



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