ocaml - OPAM package not running

Question

I've installed OPAM and run the initialization and updated my .bashrc code too. I then installed the ocamlfind package, which went successfully. But when I try

#use "topfind";;

I get the following

Cannot find file topfind

I'm running ocaml 4.00.1 built from source on Opensuse 12.2.

Answer 1

First, you need to export the right environment variables by doing:

eval `opam config env`

To be more effective, you should put that line in your ~/.profile (or ~/.bashrc).

Then, if you are using the system compiler, you can add these lines to your ~/.ocamlinit:

let () =
  try Topdirs.dir_directory (Sys.getenv "OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH")
  with Not_found -> ()

We are working on improving this process before releasing 1.0.