Friday, 9 January 2015

How to set permanent environment variables in Ubuntu ?

To set environment variables in Ubuntu:

1) Open /etc/environment file.
   This command helps to edit the file: sudo gedit /etc/environment

2) Add your environment variable in /etc/environment file as shown below.

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/SCM/softwares/gradle-2.2.1/bin:/home//SCM/softwares/apache-ant-1.9.4/bin"


3) Restart your machine.

We can also use export command for setting environment variable. To make it permanent we need to include in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile or /etc/profile file.