Recently tried the package manager Homebrew to grab things like PyQt4. It also recommended grabbing Python; no problem, done.
So a simple python at the Terminal window didn't open the recently downloaded instance of Python, so I type brew doctor and it tells me this -
Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin
This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those
provided by Homebrew. The following tools exist at both paths:
2to3
2to3-2.7
easy_install
easy_install-2.7
idle
idle2.7
pydoc
pydoc2.7
python
python-config
python2.7
python2.7-config
pythonw
pythonw2.7
smtpd.py
smtpd2.7.py
Consider amending your PATH so that /usr/local/bin occurs before /usr/bin in your PATH.
Sure, no big deal - I google around and find out about editing .profile to establish paths. I go to my home directory and enter open .profile - it doesn't exist.
No big deal, according to the Internet I can just create one here. So that's fine, touch .profile works. open .profile works. I copy and paste a line from the Internet which puts /usr/local/bin ahead of the rest of the paths. Like so:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin"
Save. Try it. Doesn't work. I remove the double-quotes; no good. I add a colon to the end of the line, for some reason. No good.
I google. I see more information about /etc/paths but even after finding it and entering sudo open paths it seems I cannot unlock it. And besides, most of the Internets also say that just adding a .profile file to my home directory ought to be enough and that I don't need to muck about with this.
But it hasn't been enough, and I'm still mucking about! So what am I missing?
