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AndreaNobili
Asked: 2015-07-03 05:28:55 +0800 CST

How to set a permanent environment variable? [duplicate]

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I am not yet a Linux guy and I have some problem trying to add a new permanent environment variable.

So I have to set a new environment variable named CATALINA_HOME with this value: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.23

What can I do to set it permanently?

Tnx

bash

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  1. Best Answer

    Add the following to the /etc/profile file (for system wide change) or to ~/.profile for local user.

    export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.23
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