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Subject: Re: Application Setup on Trisquel
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"Caleb Herbert" <csh@bluehome.net> skribis:

>> > > 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.
>>=20
>> Is this correct?
>>=20
>> # echo 'export GUIX_LOCPATH=3D$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale' >>/etc/p
>> rofile
>> # echo 'export SSL_CERT_DIR=3D"$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs"' >>/
>> etc/profile
>> # echo 'export SSL_CERT_FILE=3D"$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-c
>> ertificates.crt"' >>/etc/profile
>> # echo 'export GIT_SSL_CAINFO=3D"$SSL_CERT_FILE"' >>/etc/profile
>> # echo 'export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=3D"$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.

Does ~/.xsession-errors contain hints as to why this happened?

> How do I make sure these environment variables are set?

For the variables themselves, /etc/profile is a good thing, as discussed
above.

I=E2=80=99d probably move =E2=80=9Csource $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile=
=E2=80=9D to
~/.bash_profile, though.

But that=E2=80=99s really a shell question more than a Guix question, I thi=
nk.

HTH!

Ludo=E2=80=99.