Problem setting environment variables in Mint 13

[atg51]

On my main computer, Mint 12 (32 bit) works very happily with my environment variables and modified PATH set up in ~/.profile.

My laptop (HP Pavilion) worked happily on the same basis on Mint 12, but after a clean install of Mint 13 (32 bit, Mate version) setting up environment variables with (for example) export GROOVY_PATH = /home/myname/Groovy and PATH=$PATH:$GROOVY_PATH resulted in subsequent boots failing after 10 seconds. I do not have ~/bash_profile or ~/.bash_login in my home directory (which would have prevented .profile from operating. I had to do a reinstallation.

It would seem that the setup for configuring environment variables has changed between Mint 12 and Mint 13. I have hunted in /etc/profile .d and /etc/.profile without success. Could someone please tell me where the environment variables and PATH are set up in Mint 13?

[jon.armstrong]

I'm sure you've probably solved this by now, but for anyone else, Mint 13 only seems to read ~/.bashrc by default (I was trying to use ~/.bash_profile and couldn't figure out why none of my settings were taking effect). So move ~/.profile to ~/.bashrc and you should be good to go.

[atg51]

Many thanks Jon!

Setting up an environment variable GROOVY_HOME by adding it into ~/.bashrc works perfectly for me. An alternative, following a helpful post by Dushan Basnayake on 1 June at
http://dushan888.wordpress.com/2012/06/ ... inux-mint/
is to add the environment variable to /etc/bash.bashrc in superuser mode, which also works.

Personally I like to have separate partitions for root and my home folder, in the hope that when updating to later operating system versions the variables and PATH I have set up may not have to be changed, so I prefer your solution of using ~/.bashrc . Thanks for your help.

Incidentally, for anyone treading the same paths, pay no attention to the instruction in ~/.profile which says "see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples", as that directory doesn't exist!

[deepaknr]

Hi John,

Sorry, I am new to mint and linux. How to move ~/.profile to ~/.bashrc ? I am also having the same issue as others.

thanks
deepak

[atg51]

Hi deepak

For Mint 13 just set up the environment variables and PATH in ~/.bashrc instead of in ~/.profile.