How do I set environment variables?

[mateen]

i am booting puppy from the live cd , and have created a ext2 partion on my hard drive . i downloaded and installed perl. the problem is that i carnt seem to add the /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/bin to the $PATH variable. The setenv does not work, and i cant find the .profile in my home directory. I try setvar command but that doesnt even work. hope understand what i am trying to say. how can i do this. thanks.

[Guest]

edit the /etc/profile so that the line that currently reads

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PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/my-applications/bin"

includes the path to your Perl binaries directory, ie

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PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/my-applications/bin: /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/bin"

This should be the first line in the file. You will need to start a new terminal session for the changes to take effect

Cheers

[papaschtroumpf]

there is a perl pupget. don;t know how it compares with the version of active-perl you've installed.
There may be a lot of trimming possible from a "standard" perl install to save on disk/memory space