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Subject: Re: Application Setup on Trisquel
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> > > The manual instructs users on foreign distros to export environment
> > > variables.  Doing this in the shell makes the changes temporary.
> > > Where should these changes be made permanent?  (It is bad
practice to
> > > put environment variables in .bashrc.)
> >
> > /etc/profile would be the right place.
> 
> Is this correct?
> 
> # echo 'export GUIX_LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale' >>/etc/p
> rofile
> # echo 'export SSL_CERT_DIR="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs"' >>/
> etc/profile
> # echo 'export SSL_CERT_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-c
> ertificates.crt"' >>/etc/profile
> # echo 'export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$SSL_CERT_FILE"' >>/etc/profile
> # echo 'export CURL_CA_BUNDLE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-
> certificates.crt"' >>/etc/profile
> # echo 'source $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile' >>/etc/profile

I had to comment those lines in /etc/profile because Trisquel's
display manager would return me to the login screen after entering my
password.

How do I make sure these environment variables are set?

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