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I am trying to set the $PATH permanantly for Vault. I have cd to etc and run sudo nano environment. This opens and I have appended my needed path onto the end like this: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/richb201/Vault"

And I save this to environment. I then open a new cli and type echo $PATH but the new path "/home/richb201/Vault" doesn't appear. What am I doing wrong?

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  • See here for the whole story on how to correctly configure the environment system wide or per user: tecmint.com/set-unset-environment-variables-in-linux In your case, I would follow the advice given in the answer posted, so you do not need to be root and it affects your user only.
    – vanadium
    Feb 6, 2021 at 14:09

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I set my path in ~/.profile (ie in your home directory), no sudo necessary. There is already some code in there by default to add ~/bin which you can use as an example. But you will have to log out and in again, not just open a new terminal.

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