From 99d60109e26444a1d1bfd9e710573d624e7f7937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "http://mildred.fr/" <http://mildred.fr/@web>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:22:14 +0000
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+Instead of changing the `PATH`, it should be possible to symlink the binaries to the `~/.local/bin` directory.
+
+Here is a script I put on the prebuilt package (its basename is unimportant but it must be placed along with the git-annex script):
+
+    #!/bin/sh
+    link="$(readlink "$0")"
+    base="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; cd "$(dirname "$link")"; echo "$PWD")"
+    name="$(basename "$0")"
+    exec "$base/$name" "$@"
+
+Symlink this script to `~/.local/bin/git-annex`, `~/.local/bin/git-annex-shell` and `~/.local/bin/git-annex-webapp`. on my system I have:
+
+    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mildred mildred 36 Dec 13 12:12 git-annex -> ../opt/git-annex.linux/run-git-annex
+    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mildred mildred 36 Dec 13 12:12 git-annex-shell -> ../opt/git-annex.linux/run-git-annex
+    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mildred mildred 36 Dec 13 12:12 git-annex-webapp -> ../opt/git-annex.linux/run-git-annex
+
+The script will detect the installation directory using `readlink`. Both absolute and relative links works. Then it starts the correct script depending on the basename of the link.
+
+It should be possible to link the `git-annex`, `git-annex-webapp` and `git-annex-shell` scripts instead if they used `readlink` to find out the location of the prebuilt package.
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