how to modify startup environment

[marcus_mercado]

Hi I recently installed PERL and it told me to do this after installation

ActivePerl has been successfully installed at /opt/ActivePerl-5.10.

Please modify your startup environment by adding:

  /opt/ActivePerl-5.10/site/bin:/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/bin to PATH
  /opt/ActivePerl-5.10/site/man:/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/man to MANPATH

How do I go about doing this?
I would google but I'm really tired since it's to 2 AM. I'm off to sleep

Thanks,

[doctordruidphd]

Re: how to modify startup environment

If you are the only user, then one way to do it is to add the following lines to the .bashrc file in your home directory:


export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/site/bin:/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/bin

export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/site/man:/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/man


should work.