developer page on installing go, .profile doesn't get sourced

Petr Hracek phracek at redhat.com
Thu Nov 5 12:22:47 UTC 2015


Hi Eduardo,

welcome on Fedora board:)
It's nice to hear that Fedora Developer Portal helps you.

If you have any idea what is missing please let us know or create an 
issue as Tomas
mentioned.

On 11/05/2015 01:07 PM, Tomas Tomecek wrote:
> Quoting Eduardo Silva (2015-11-03 02:32:11)
>> First of all I have to say I'm not a developer, but with the sexyness
>> of developer.fedoraproject.org I might just become than just an
>> enthusiast for Fedora.
>>
>> While looking at the site, I decided to check out 'go' since I've heard
>> a lot of good about it. At the end of the installation instructions
>> https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/languages/go/go-installation.html
>> is said to add a environment variable to ~/.profile. But when I open a
>> new gnome terminal .profile isn't sourced...
>>
>> Is this a bug in the instructions, or my system?
>>
>> Thank you, and congrats again on the new portal
>> Eduardo
>>
>>
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> You are indeed right. I tried zsh and bash and neither of those sources
> `~/.profile`. Looks like we should update our guide.
>
> Can you please create an upstream issue at
> `https://github.com/developer-portal/content`?
>
> Just for the record, easiest solution to the problem will be probably to put the
> environment variable to `~/.bashrc` (or `~/.zshrc`) -- depends what shell you are
> using.
>
>
> Thank you for your interest in portal!
> ~~
> Tomáš Tomeček
> Software Engineer
> Developer Experience
> UTC+2 (CEST)
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