[Linux-disciples] path conflict

[Jamie Forrest]

Thanks Ken!

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Chung-chieh Shan
<ccshan at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-11-20T00:14:01-0500, Jamie Forrest wrote:
>> I have a strange, circular path conflict going on (OS X). Lion comes
>> preinstalled with a version of postgresql in /usr/bin but I need to be
>> using the one that I installed in /usr/local/bin. However, the
>> /usr/local/bin directory also contains a default version of Python
>> (again, not the version I want to be using). So, if I add
>> /usr/local/bin to the head of my PATH variable in order to get psql
>> working properly, that also causes the wrong Python to be run.
>>
>> How do I get around this? Postgres and Python both come with lots of
>> executables so I'd rather not have to delete or mv all these out of
>> the directories. Any ideas?
>
> You can make a new directory, use symbolic links to make the Postgres
> files you want appear in this new directory, and add the new directory
> to your PATH instead of adding /usr/local/bin.
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