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Hi all I'm trying to run a program called cufflinks on my machine, however there appears to be a version of this in multiple places on my existing system. For example when I typed whereis cufflinks I get a few directories. I have downloaded the executables (cufflinks comes with other related programs) and so-far I've been just doing something like /myownbing/cufflinks - and it works until it tries to call other cufflink programs and it says my version is not updated because it tries to run the default.

is there anyway I can tell my system to use only my veresion? eg /myownbing/cufflinks instead? I don't have admin rights because it prohibits me to type in sudo anything.

thanks in advance. Ahdee

David Foerster
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  • the_Steppi posted an excellent answer about this a little while ago: http://askubuntu.com/a/515986/158442 – muru Aug 25 '14 at 20:33

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I suggest you set the correct executable search path when invoking your program:

export PATH="/myownbing:$PATH"
cufflinks

Or shorter but without altering the environment of the executing shell:

PATH="/myownbing:$PATH" cufflinks
David Foerster
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