Setting up environment variables for the Linux shell
To run any of the Koha's programs from the Linux shell we need to set up up two environment variables properly—KOHA_CONF and PERL5LIB. Koha's Perl programs look at these variables to determine the location of the installation's configuration file – koha-conf.xml and the location of the application folder – kohaclone. In this section, we demonstrate how to setup these variables up for a single session and how to set these up to be persistent across sessions.
Setting up KOHA_CONF environment variable
The KOHA_CONF environment variable should point to Koha's configuration directory; in this book we have used /etc/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml. To set up this variable, we use the export command:
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