Environment management

As environment configuration, it is intened the binary path, library path configuration, plus environment variable saved in the machine state.

Binary path modification

The execution path is essential to permit the system to find the executables in the disks.

echo $PATH

To modify it run:

export PATH="/home/$USER/new/bin/location:$PATH"

Library path modification

As per the execution path, the library location path can be identified and modified at occurrence. To see where the machine is looking for a library:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

while for the execution path check:

echo $PATH

To add a custom path run for a new library location run:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/to/newlibrary:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"