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I downloaded the CLI Client habash for the habit/routine gameification project habatica.com. In the fandom wiki for habash it is written that, I need to set environment variables. Additonally I want to make the program habash an ordinary CLI-program, so that I dont have to invoke it via the fullpath. I describe now, what I have been doing. I did the following.

  • After declare -x HABITICA_UUID=[myUserID] I did not find any entries in ~/.bashrc. Any one knows why?
  • Therfore I added HABITICA_UUID and HABITICA_TOKEN at the top of ~/.bashrc (and made a comment for myself)
  • chmod 600 ~/.bashrc because UUID and TOKEN are regarded as PWs.
  • sudo mv ./habash /opt
  • sudo ln -s /opt/habash/habash /usr/local/bin

Is this the best way how to do it? (storing in /opt and linkint to /usr/local/bin ; variables in .bashrc and chmoding it with 600)

Josomeister
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  • After declare -x HABITICA_UUID=[myUserID] I did not find any entries in ~/.bashrc. Any one knows why?

You need to put it in a config file e.g. ~/.bashrc. Setting it on command line, only has effect on the current shell.

  • Therfore I added HABITICA_UUID and HABITICA_TOKEN at the top of ~/.bashrc (and made a comment for myself)
  • chmod 600 ~/.bashrc because UUID and TOKEN are regarded as PWs.

You could but it in a new custom file, chmod this file, and add a line to source this file from ~/.bashrc

in ~/.bashrc (better to also add code to check that file is readable)

. ~/.my_custom_config
  • sudo mv ./habash /opt
  • sudo ln -s /opt/habash/habash /usr/local/bin

Best not to mix /opt and /usr/local. They have different structures.

Look in to stow. You will then put each app into /usr/local/stow/app-name, and use stow to link it into /usr/local/{bin,lib,share,var,etc}

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