[OS X TeX] TeXLive 2006 (MacTeX) is not detected...

Alessandro Andretta alessandroandretta at mac.com
Tue Jan 2 06:23:24 EST 2007


I am using the path /usr/local/texprograms and it works with both  
gwTeX and TeXLive.
This way TeX should choose your default distribution, as defined by  
the System Preference Panel.
But I am not an expert at all, so other might have a better  
suggestion/explanation.

Greetings,

	--aa

On 2 Jan 2007, at 12:14, Franck Pastor wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just installed the Mac TeX "TeXLive 2006" package. gwTeX and  
> gwTeX-2003-2005 had been already installed before, via i-installer.  
> I have of course set TeXShop's search path to "/usr/texbin". But if  
> I switch to TeXLive-2006 in the TeX distribution panel of System  
> Preferences, TeXShop refuses to work.
>
> The message I got from TeXShop is "/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not  
> exist. Perhaps teTeX was not installed or was removed during a  
> system upgrade. If so, go to the TeXShop web site and follow the  
> instructions to (re)install teTeX. Another possibility is that a  
> tool path is incorrectly configured in TeXShop preferences. This  
> can happen if you are using the fink teTeX distribution."
>
> It does not work with the terminal, either: it is the old teTeX's  
> pdflatex command (version 1.30) which is seen by the terminal. Here  
> is my PATH variable, by the way:
>
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ 
> texbin:~/bin:.:/Applications/mosek/4/tools/platform/osx32ppc/bin:/ 
> usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
>
> However, everything work fine if I switch to gwTeX or  
> gwTeX-2003-2005 in System Preferences ...
>
> Any ideas of what went wrong? I am a bit lost ...
>
>
>
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