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Setting environment variables?

Can't figure this out.. I need to add a few places in $PATH permanently for osso-xterm and cannot find any references or documentation on how to do this on my N900 / Maemo5.

Please advise

Re: Setting environment variables?

If my memory serves me well, you should be able to create a .profile file in your home directory (~/.profile) and add your exports there.

For example:

Code:

echo "export FOO=bar" >> ~/.profile

Or alternatively, edit /etc/profile, however that might be dangerous as that file is used for nearly all -- if not all -- the terminal sessions that run on the device.

Re: Setting environment variables?

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrashandDie (Post 517202)

If my memory serves me well, you should be able to create a .profile file in your home directory (~/.profile) and add your exports there.

For example:

Code:

echo "export FOO=bar" >> ~/.profile

Or alternatively, edit /etc/profile, however that might be dangerous as that file is used for nearly all -- if not all -- the terminal sessions that run on the device.

No unfortunately I had tried both and neither work :s

Re: Setting environment variables?

Have you tried putting it to .bashrc in your home directory?
Something like this:

Code:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/MyDocs

Re: Setting environment variables?

Quote:

Originally Posted by techdork (Post 517417)

No unfortunately I had tried both and neither work :s

Setting environment variables in the ~/.profile works fine for me - I modify both the PATH and PERL5LIB variables there.

Re: Setting environment variables?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 517449)

Setting environment variables in the ~/.profile works fine for me - I modify both the PATH and PERL5LIB variables there.

Works here too.

Edit: Oops, the following applies to the Nokia N9:

I recently lost ~/.profile due to a corrupt filesystem on /dev/mmcblk0p3.

I found the stock Twitter application did not show any tweets and wrote the following to /var/log/syslog:

Code:

twitter-meego[4859]: CRITICAL-Error: Not found XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable

The Documents application (office-tools) would list documents, but would not open them. It complained about being unable to write to '/libkok'.

I managed to find a copy of ~/.profile which think is untouched (I don't recall making any changes here):

Code:

export DISPLAY=':0'

export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share/"

export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"



eval `/usr/bin/aegis-session --sh-syntax --with-ulimit`



if [ -e /etc/profile.d/language.sh ] ; then

     . /etc/profile.d/language.sh

fi

After restoring this file (and possibly rebooting), Twitter and Documents started working again.