Problem
For the Play! framework installation, I’d like to add the value “:/home/me/play/” to PATH. As a result, I executed the following command:
PATH=$PATH:/home/me/play
It was successful. However, the following time I checked, the value had reverted to the previous one.
So it’s safe to assume I didn’t “store” the updated value?
How do you go about doing that?
Asked by socksocket
Solution #1
Add
export PATH=$PATH:/home/me/play
Add your /.profile file and run it
source ~/.profile
in order for changes to your current terminal instance to be reflected quickly.
Answered by lollo
Solution #2
Using vi /.profile, add the following line to your.profile file in your home directory:
PATH=$PATH:/home/me/play
export PATH
Then, to make the change take effect, write the following into your terminal:
$ . ~/.profile
Answered by ndeverge
Solution #3
In the /.bashrc file, try adding export PATH=$PATH:/home/me/play.
Answered by Danil Speransky
Solution #4
Add the following line to your /etc/profile.d/play.sh (and maybe play.csh, etc) if you want this path to be available to all users on the system:
PATH=$PATH:/home/me/play
export PATH
Answered by Brian Cain
Post is based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11709374/change-path-permanently-on-ubuntu