difficulty in seting TEXINPUTS

I've added the lines TEXINPUTS=/usr/share/texmf//:.//: export TEXINPUTS to my .bashrc file in order to force Latex to find some macros. but it just doesn't work can anybody help me with that ?? thanks. marcelle. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

apt problems

hi, I'm trying to change the address used by apt-get. I changed the adddress in apt-setup, but it doesn't work: apt-get continues to search the broken address. does any one how can I make apt-get aware of the changes?