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Re: [Question #3199]: How to set environmental variable "PATH" permanantly?

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From: Ryan Kavanagh <question3199@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:09:10 -0000
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Question #3199 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/3199

Ryan Kavanagh posted a new comment:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 01:09:26PM -0000, George Fragos wrote:
> George Fragos posted a new comment:
> Matsobane: If Gnome is your desktop, enter "sudo gedit ~/.bashrc" in
> terminal followed by your password.

Hi there,
1) Last I heard, you shouldn't use 'sudo' with X apps, use gksudo or kdesudo
with X apps instead, this prevents error messages of the type:
"** WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file: /home/shane/.ICEauthority"
2) You don't need to be root / use sudo to edit ~/.bashrc

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