[OS X TeX] Open Testing of MacTeX Distribution

[Maarten Sneep]

On 11 Oct 2005, at 12:10, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 10 Oct 2005, at 3:50 pm, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
>> Jaguar (10.2.8):
>
>
>> -- Minor issues:
>> -- -- ghostscript and everything else in /usr/local/bin is not  
>> available from the command line.
>
> Just a possibility: Note that if you have an existing Terminal  
> window running tcsh (which was the default shell back in 10.2  
> days), the addition of /usr/local/bin to the path won't take effect  
> there unless you issue the "rehash" command. This could make it  
> appear, in a brief test, as though ghostscript etc is unavailable,  
> whereas perhaps it would have worked in future Terminal sessions.

I have a few answers here:
1) /usr/local/bin wasn't added to the path on all systems (10.2,  
10.3, and 10.4)
2) Terminal wasn't started until after Installer had finished.

Maarten
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