How to set ANT_HOME on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?

Question

It looks like Ubuntu uses ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.pam_profile, /etc/environment, and /etc/profile in very

Answer 1

BEST way to set environment variables GLOBALY

Step 1 :
Set all variables in /etc/environment like this

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
ANT_HOME=/usr/....
set path="/usr/bin::$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin"

Step 2 :
Add this line at the end of ~/.bashrc of each user

source /etc/environment

Step 3 :
Execute the following command to make the changes.

source ~/.bashrc

Hope it helps..!!