[OS X TeX] Permission problems in texmf.local
Michael S. Hanson
mshanson at wesleyan.edu
Mon Apr 12 23:47:30 EDT 2004
About two weeks ago I ran the latest i-Installer at the time to update
my desktop TeX installation. Today when I tried to use the Fourier
math fonts (in a document that had compiled fine on this Mac prior to
the update), I received the error:
!LaTeX Error: File 'fourier.sty' not found.
This file is where I had installed it some time ago -- in texmf.local.
However, I no longer have permission to access it (yes, I am using an
admin account):
% kpsewhich fourier
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/fourier: Permission denied
Turns out, a number of the directories under texmf.local have their
execute bit turned off for group/others:
% ls -lF /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 14 Sep 2003 doc/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 15 Jul 2003 dvipdfm/
drwxr--r-- 4 root admin 136 14 Sep 2003 dvips/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 21 Jan 2003 etex/
drwxr--r-- 6 root admin 204 14 Sep 2003 fonts/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 7923 30 Mar 14:29 ls-R
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 21 Jan 2003 pdftex/
drwxr--r-- 5 root admin 170 18 Sep 2003 tex/
drwxr-xr-x 44 root admin 1496 30 Mar 14:29 web2c/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 21 Jan 2003 xdvi/
which I suspect (I only know enough Unix to be dangerous (TM)) is why I
cannot "see" the fourier.sty file (and presumably others).
Questions:
1. Is it safe to execute 'sudo chmod -R go+x *' in
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ ? If not, what should I do
instead?
2. What happened? On my PowerBook (not updated since October, the
last time my desktop had been updated before the end of March), the
permissions all appear correct -- or at least I encounter no errors
when using fourier.sty.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
-- Mike
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