Problem: Environment variables can't be saved

Hi guys,

I have just installed openSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.1,I logged as root and installed some programs.
The problem when I closed the terminal everything I did is gone ,that makes me update the environment variables every time I run the terminal.
Is there a way to make the environment variables permanent?

Regards,

Edit the .profile file to insert your entries.

export MYVAR=value