Setting an environment variable for play framework

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I have installed play framework on Ubuntu 12.4 and I want to be able to just call play from terminal without specifying it's full path. I've tried exporting the path and so on, but it does not work because for some reason, another application called play starts instead. Problem is I cannot find that application's path in the paths file. What am I doing wrong?

James Ward · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-17 11:16:40Z

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To find the thing that is in your path named play run:

which play

answered Oct 17, 2012 at 11:16

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thexpertdev · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-28 11:21:08Z

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I had the same problem with ubuntu 14.01. Steps i followed to fix the issue:

On the cli type
```
which play
```
. Result for my case was
```
/usr/bin/play 
```
which was not my play framework application.
Rename symbolic link to point to your play framework directory with the below commands.

sudo rm /usr/bin/play

sudo ln -s /opt/play-2.1.1/play/usr/bin/play

answered Dec 28, 2015 at 11:21

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