[docs] A reminder on linux doc to use $HOME on PATH
Every now and then non-googlers end up having issues when running gclient run hooks because they use ~ to refer to the home directory. This update mentions that they have to use ${HOME}. Bug: 811748 Change-Id: I5228698d363fe030ff3825371216eca40fc27ce8 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/916283 Reviewed-by: Reilly Grant <reillyg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Elly Fong-Jones <ellyjones@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Reilly Grant <reillyg@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#536368}
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$ export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools"
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```
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When cloning `depot_tools` to your home directory **do not** use `~` on PATH,
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otherwise `gclient runhooks` will fail to run. Rather, you should use either
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`$HOME` or the absolute path:
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```shell
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$ export PATH="$PATH:${HOME}/depot_tools"
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```
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## Get the code
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Create a `chromium` directory for the checkout and change to it (you can call
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