If you add a script to /etc/profile.d/ it will be sourced to all
interactive users.
I would use the version number, this version number is available while
building the image ($VERSION).
adding
echo "export OSGEOLIVE=$VERSION">/etc/profile.d/osgeolive.sh should do the
trick.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, 22:26 Seth G <se...@geographika.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> It would be useful for a Python Notebook (or any demo application) to know
> if it is running on OSGeoLive in order to set paths to data etc.
>
> Looking at the current system environment variables I don't think there is
> something that would definitively declare a script is running on OSGeoLive.
>
> Setting an OSGEOLIVE variable to the version could be even more helpful
> e.g. "export OSGEOLIVE=14" (somewhere in
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/tree/master/bin - although I'm not
> sure where). As noted in IRC from kalxas "we can add this to the bash
> profile of new users" - so maybe in
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/setup.sh ?
>
> "export OSGEOLIVE=true" or similar could be used if keeping version
> numbers updated is a problem.
>
> Then any demos could be multipurposed - running in cloud plus running on
> osgeolive and setting appropriate paths to data if that is the case.
>
> Seth
>
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