Help adding directory to PATH environment variable in Ubuntu 16.04

Question

How do I add "/home/me/pycharm-edu-4.0/bin/" to my PATH environment variable? I've tried what's in How to set $PATH in Ubuntu and What is the PATH environment variable and how do I add to it? but I can't get it to work. What exactly should I change

PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

to? Or should I comment it out and add a line underneath? I appreciate any help.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 28 '17 at 00:10

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You have to use something like:

PATH="$HOME/pycharm-edu-4.0/bin:$PATH"

or:

PATH="$PATH:$HOME/pycharm-edu-4.0/bin"

if you want a higher priority for default paths.

edited Aug 28 '17 at 00:10

answered Aug 27 '17 at 23:11

Ravexina

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You left out the $HOME in your suggested paths. – ubfan1 Aug 27 '17 at 23:14
Should PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH be changed or must be keept? – pa4080 Aug 27 '17 at 23:22
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@pa4080 keep it, add the new line at the end of file. – Ravexina Aug 27 '17 at 23:24
I added quotes. Makes a difference if $HOME or $PATH includes space characters. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 28 '17 at 00:12
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I tried both lines but neither one worked. I ended up using this solution - https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PYH/Installing+PyCharm+on+Linux+according+to+FHS to create a link. – Savin Wales Aug 28 '17 at 04:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '18 at 09:26

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1.Open a terminal from the bin directory of pycharm and type

./pycharm.sh

2.Go to Tools>>Create Desktop entry.Now you can just press the windows key and type pycharm to run it

answered Mar 09 '18 at 09:26

Shywalker

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 12 '19 at 16:04

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Using fish, the other answers didn't work for me.

But this did:

set PATH $PATH /home/me/pycharm-edu-4.0/bin/

edited Jul 12 '19 at 16:04

Eliah Kagan

answered Jul 12 '19 at 15:47

Tincho825

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