Is there a non-shell specific way to set environment variables? (primarily $PATH) | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

oblique olive Oct 2, 2022, 4:08 AM

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this is more of a general question, but I'd like to know how to do this so I can fix a program's installation being almost fully dependent on you using bash as your shell to set your $PATH variable (aka putting it in ~/.bash_profile)

hardy flint Oct 2, 2022, 4:12 AM

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Put in the env vars as key=value pairs in /etc/environment

oblique olive Oct 2, 2022, 4:27 AM

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is there any way that does not involve root access?

hardy flint Oct 2, 2022, 5:16 AM

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~/.profile

#Is there a non-shell specific way to set environment variables? (primarily $PATH)