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  1. Bug #366728
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Comment 4 for bug 366728

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Zed (scientist47-xyz) wrote : Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH not loads from .profile

Found a workaround (or perhaps solution):
Move the variable setting to ~./.bashrc:

~/.profile:
if [ -d "$HOME/lib" ] ; then
    export LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/lib"
fi

~/.bashrc:
if [ -d "$HOME/lib" ] ; then
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/lib"
fi

sperlis said that LD_LIBRARY_PATH may be deleted for security reasons in certain situations. Is this the case here?

Declaring variables in ~/.bashrc is less efficient according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables:

"However, performance-wise this may not be the best thing to do since it will cause values to be unnecessarily set many times".

If LD_LIBRARY_PATH is blocked for security reasons it is not a bug. There should however be more information on this.