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Alternatively, you could add the directory to the PATH variable modifying either the /home/user/.bash-profile (if only the current user needs to run the script) or /etc/profile (if all users should be able to do so).<br />
More info here: <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/102932/adding-a-directory-to-path-in-centos/102943#102943" rel="ugc">http://serverfault.com/questions/102932/adding-a-directory-to-path-in-centos/102943#102943</a><br />
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I thought about this before submitting my post, but then I couldn't imagine that a company like Pentaho would not either already modify the path on installing, or else avert the user of the fact that calling their script from outside its directory will not work.
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Alternatively, you could add the directory to the PATH variable modifying either the /home/user/.bash-profile (if only the current user needs to run the script) or /etc/profile (if all users should be able to do so).
More info here: http://serverfault.com/questions/102932/adding-a-directory-to-path-in-centos/102943#102943 [http://serverfault.com/questions/102932/adding-a-directory-to-path-in-centos/102943#102943]

I thought about this before submitting my post, but then I couldn't imagine that a company like Pentaho would not either already modify the path on installing, or else avert the user of the fact that calling their script from outside its directory will not work.

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The java CLASSPATH variable would have to be adjusted, not the PATH variable.
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The java CLASSPATH variable would have to be adjusted, not the PATH variable.

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I have a program (spoon.sh as part of pentaho data integration) that runs fine from a shell window but when I create a launcher icon on the desktop that points to the shell script, that doesn't work.<br />
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This is in centos 5.5.
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I have a program (spoon.sh as part of pentaho data integration) that runs fine from a shell window but when I create a launcher icon on the desktop that points to the shell script, that doesn't work.

This is in centos 5.5.

In centos, program doesn't launch from the desktop

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