adding environment variable paths in linux

2014-09-06

adding environment variable paths in linux
ubuntu

example:
export PATH=$

PATH

:/home/azim58/meme/bin

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/set-environment-variable-linux/

^Actually this fix only seems to work in individual terminals and doesn't seem to work system wide. . .

maybe



I can't believe nobody mentioned /etc/environment file. It's sole purpose is to store Environment Variables. Originally the $PATH variable is defined here. This is a paste from my /etc/environment file:

This procedure works to set the environment variables



cd /etc


sudo nano environment


//then add the path you want.  Then a restart is required.  I have tried this, and it works.