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I upgraded Tex Live from 2013 to 2015 on Ubuntu 14.04 using the guidelines given in this nice answer. But have some problems. After upgrading when I check the version of Tex Live using tex --version command it gives the the following information:

TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.1.1
Copyright 2013 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.

However, after changing the PATH (as explained in this answer) through:

export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/i386-linux/":$PATH"

if I check the version of Tex Live using tex --version command it gives the the following information:

TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2015)
kpathsea version 6.2.1
Copyright 2015 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.

But after closing the terminal, the PATH again reset to original PATH and show the TeX Live 2013 version. I would highly appreciate if someone help me figure out this problem and have to delete Tex Live 2013. Thanks in advance for your help.

Edited

yaseen@yaseen:~$ /etc/environment
bash: /etc/environment: Permission denied
yaseen@yaseen:~$ ~/.profile
bash: /home/yaseen/.profile: Permission denied
yaseen@yaseen:~$ ~/.bashrc
bash: /home/yaseen/.bashrc: Permission denied

Contents of sudo gedit ~/.profile

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
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    You probably set the path somewhere else. What do you have in /etc/environment ? What about ~/.profile ? What about ~/.bashrc ?
    – scottkosty
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:28
  • you just need to set your PATH somewhere that persists, this is nothing to do with tex, just standard unix, eg .profile or .login or .bash_profile according to your setup
    – David Carlisle
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:29
  • Thanks @DavidCarlisle for your interest in my problem. Actually I'm new to Ubuntu and would appreciate if you help me to figure out this problem. Thanks
    – MYaseen208
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:33
  • Thanks @scottkosty for showing interest in my problem. Please my edits.
    – MYaseen208
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:34
  • You need to edit those files just like you would a .tex file. Try the command <editor> ~/.profile, where <editor> is your favourite text editor (e.g., emacs or gedit or nano or -- dare I say it? -- vi). Note that you need administrator powers for /etc/environment, so you'd do something like sudo emacs /etc/environment if you want to go there. (I use ~/.profile, personally.)
    – jon
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:38

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Reset to default
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It seems like you just typed the export PATH=... into the console.

Write this into your ~/.profile and check after you opened a new console.

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  • Did you read the comments? You do not think it is important to find out where TeX Live 2013 is added to the PATH?
    – scottkosty
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 17:14

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