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Asked: 2026-06-01T13:37:08+00:00

Hi Im running linux angstrom distribution on a remote device, I added .bash_profile and

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Hi Im running linux angstrom distribution on a remote device, I added .bash_profile and .bashrc to /home/root since they didn’t exist and I wrote this in them 

PATH=/opt/qt-arm/lib:$PATH 
export PATH

But now when I login to this device and type $PATH I don’t see the newly added path…Any Ideas??

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  1. Editorial Team

    I added .bash_profile and .bashrc to /home/root since …

    Look in /etc/passwd to check whether /home/root is actully root’s home directory. On most linux distributions, it is just /root, not /home/root.

    Update in response to comments:

    .bash_profile and .bashrc are only inspected if the user’s shell is bash. You can see what root’s shell is in /etc/passwd.

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