Set system-wide environment variables in Ubuntu

Answer:

The recommended way now is to edit the file /etc/environment .

# vi /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"

Add you key=value pairs into this file and save it.

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