Choosing between multiple executables with same name in Linux

Question

The system I am using has gnuplot installed in /usr/bin. I don\'t have root, but I needed a newer version of gnuplot, so I installed it to

Answer 1

What Bombe says is ok. I would add that you should declare your user specific PATH entries inside your user's bashrc ($HOME/.bashrc), so your PATH settings only apply to your user.