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I looked at /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile and neither of them seemed like the appropriate places to be putting that stuff (b/c system-wide functions and were being defined and I didn't wanna mess anything up).

These are no different to the ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, they just get applied to all users, as long as you append to the bottom of them you wont break anything. And they are not setting any system functions, it is all settings in a users environment.

If you use the local profile to set the PATH settings you need to do it for each user you want to have access to.

Code:

echo "PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH" >> /home/username/.bashrc

and just change the username, instead of manually doing vi on each script.

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