Bash Shell & Perl Library Path

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Re: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by toolic (Bishop) on Jun 28, 2009 at 02:51 UTC
I do not use bash, but you should be able to set the `PERL5LIB` environment variable to point to your path. Add this to your shell initialization file (`~/.bashrc`, I presume, to make it permanent).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2009 at 03:10 UTC
How can I set it globally for everyone?	[reply]
Re^3: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by tomfahle (Priest) on Jun 28, 2009 at 07:48 UTC
For Login-Shells its /etc/bash.bashrc - This is is the system-wide version of the ~/.bashrc file. Ubuntu is configured by default to execute this file whenever a user enters a shell or the desktop environment. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables for the glory details.	[reply]
Re^4: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by afoken (Chancellor) on Jun 28, 2009 at 11:55 UTC
Re^5: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by oko1 (Deacon) on Jun 28, 2009 at 15:14 UTC
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Re^3: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by Anonymous Monk on Jun 28, 2009 at 05:04 UTC
Install the module as root	[reply]
Re: Bash Shell & Perl Library Path by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Jun 28, 2009 at 21:01 UTC
If you want to add it permanently then, assuming you use sh (or a descendant thereof but not `csh` or any of its variants), add the following into your profile i.e. `$HOME/.profile` `PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB export PERL5LIB<new path>` [download] or possibly `export PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB` [download] If you want all users to inherit this setting, then add the above into `/etc/profile`. Note that the above will vary if you are unfortunate/misguided enough to use the C shell - if nothing else, the file to change will be `$HOME/.login`. Note also that you should avoid using shell specific scripts e.g. `.bashrc`, `.kshrc` or even `.cshrc` to set login session environment variables - these should be used merely to modify the login shell environment on a per shell basis. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply] [d/l] [select]