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I'm confused trying to get SCALE to work
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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So I don't know how much you know about the shell, but the way that the linux command line works is that there are a set of variables, called environment variables, which dictate so me behavior of the shell. For example, $PATH variable, refers to what directories to search through, when you try to execute a program in your shell.
The documentation you linked, wants you to create a custom shell variable, called SCALE_PATH, consisting of a folder path, which contains the compiled binaries/programs of scale you want to run.
This command:
export PATH="${SCALE_PATH}/bin:$PATH"temporarily edits your PATH variable to add that folder with the scale programs you want to run to your path, enabling you to execute them from your shell.