Ok after this I did a bit try out and /etc/environment doesn't function.

I took away /usr/games from my ~/.bashrc, then restarted and did this:
$ cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"

to be sure /usr/games is in that file.

But it isn't enough:
$ supertuxkart
Command 'supertuxkart' is available in '/usr/games/supertuxkart'
The command could not be located because '/usr/games' is not included in the
PATH environment variable.
supertuxkart: command not found

So any other ideas? :P

2011/5/16 JC Hulce <email address hidden>

> I did some research on this.  See
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables
> There are several places that we could use to specify $PATH:
> ===Session-wide environment variables===
>    ~/.profile - This is probably the best file for placing environment
> variable assignments in, since it gets executed automatically by the
> DisplayManager during the startup process desktop session as well as by the
> login shell when one logs-in from the textual console.
>    ~/.bash_profile or ~./bash_login - If one of these file exist, bash
> executes it rather then "~/.profile" when it is started as a login shell.
> (Bash will prefer "~/.bash_profile" to "~/.bash_login"). However, these
> files won't influence a graphical session by default.
>    ~/.bashrc - Because of the way Ubuntu currently sets up the various
> script files by default, this may be the easiest place to set variables in.
> The default configuration nearly guarantees that this file will be executed
> in each and every invocation of bash as well as while logging in to the
> graphical environment. However, performance-wise this may not be the best
> thing to do since it will cause values to be unnecessarily set many times.
>
> ===System-wide environment variables===
>    /etc/environment - This file is specifically meant for system-wide
> environment variable settings. It is not a script file, but rather consists
> of assignment expressions, one per line. Specifically, this file stores the
> system-wide locale and path settings.
>    /etc/profile - This file gets executed whenever a bash login shell is
> entered (e.g. when logging in from the console or over ssh), as well as by
> the DisplayManager when the desktop session loads. This is probably the file
> you will get referred to when asking veteran UNIX system administrators
> about environment variables. In Ubuntu, however, this file does little more
> then invoke the /etc/bash.bashrc file.
>    /etc/bash.bashrc - This is the system-wide version of the ~/.bashrc
> file. Ubuntu is configured by default to execute this file whenever a user
> enters a shell or the desktop environment.
>
> Obviously, we shouldn't use the per-user ones because there might be
> several users on a system.  Also, some of these files might already be
> owned by a package (most are shipped by bash itself).  /etc/environment
> looks like the best option since it is system wide and not owned.  Maybe
> we could ship a custom version of that?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778900
>
> Title:
>  Cannot start games, wrong $PATH
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  can't start foobillard or any other game that is located in /usr/games
>  ,from the menu or from any location Inside a terminal  because
>  /usr/games isnt't in the Environment Variable Path.
>
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