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2. **Configure your shell's environment for Pyenv**
**Note:** The below instructions for specific shells are designed for common shell setups.
If you have an uncommon setup and they don't work for you,
**Note:** The below instructions for specific shells are designed for common shell setups;
they also install shell functions into interactive shells only.
If you have an uncommon setup and/or special needs and they don't work for you,
use the guidance text and the [Advanced Configuration](#advanced-configuration)
section below to figure out what you need to do in your specific case.
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**Proxy note**: If you use a proxy, export `http_proxy` and `https_proxy`, too.
2. **Add `pyenv` into your shell** by running the output of `pyenv init -`
to enable autocompletion and all subcommands.
This command needs to run at startup of any interactive shell instance.
2. **Add `pyenv` into your shell as a shell function** by running the output of `pyenv init -`
to enable autocompletion and subcommands that require `pyenv` to be a shell function.
The subcommands enabled by this step are those that make changes to the current shell environment.
In Pyenv, that's only `pyenv shell`; another example is `pyenv activate` from the
[Pyenv-Virtualenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv) plugin.
This step is optional. Run it whenever you need the above functions --
typically at startup of any interactive shell.
In an interactive login shell, it needs to run _after_ the commands
from the previous step.