setting the environment variable error

Question

I am trying to set the environmental variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directly i am currently working on.

This is the command which i gave.

 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

In response, i received the following error.

 LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Undefined variable.

The main purpose of the command is to set the library path as the current working directory since i am not granted a super admin power to copy my files in the usr/lib folder.

How to solve this

Oh bleeping bleep. Are you using [(t)csh](http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/)? — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Jun 08 '11 at 09:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 09:25

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It means that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set in your env. Try

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH .

answered Jun 08 '11 at 09:25

dogbane

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Thank you. But now it says, export command not found :( – Jun 08 '11 at 09:27
I didn't say `export`. I said `setenv` :) – dogbane Jun 08 '11 at 09:27
^^ yeah i gave `setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH` and then executed the command. Now it says `export command not found` – Jun 08 '11 at 09:30
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you don't need to run any export command. Just `setenv` is enough. – dogbane Jun 08 '11 at 09:34

setting the environment variable error

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