Multi-distribution woes (was: Re: [OS X TeX] Font tmmath install problems with new gwtex. Please help.)

[Gary Church]

Hello happy TeX'ers.

I'm facing again a situation that confounds me.

Thanks to the kind help of some of the contributers to this list  
(esp. Herbert Schultz), I was able to sort out the problems I had  
with some fonts after installing GWTex using i-installer.

Today I decided to install gnuplot using darwinports (sudo /opt/local/ 
bin/port install gnuplot). Watching the install proceed, I noticed  
that it also decided to install TeTeX (which had been previously  
installed before installing GWTeX). This evidently changed the  
distribution I'm using from GWTeX to this one. Executing "which  
kpsewhich" now gives:

gary-churchs-computer:~ gary$ which kpsewhich
/opt/local/bin/kpsewhich

whereas before (after installing GWTeX) it gave:

>> gary-churchs-computer:~ gary$ which kpsewhich
>> /usr/texbin/kpsewhich

Also, "sudo texhash" now gives:

gary-churchs-computer:~ gary$ sudo texhash
Password:
texhash: Updating /Users/gary/.texmf-config/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /Users/gary/.texmf-var/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-config/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-local/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /opt/local/share/texmf-var/ls-R...
texhash: Done.

And, noticeably, ~/Library/texmf/, is left out from the directories  
in texhash so that packages in that branch aren't being found.

So, here I am again, hat in hand, asking for the kind help of members  
of this list.

How can I get the GWTeX to be the distribution that is being used?  
BTW, the "TeX Distribution" item in the System Preferences Pane only  
lists GWTeX as a system wide TeX distribution (and the sole radio  
button is selected).

Thanks again for any help or advice you can provide,
Gary.

On Apr 28, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Gary Church wrote:
>
>>
>> and "which kpsewhich" gives:
>>
>> gary-churchs-computer:~ gary$ which kpsewhich
>> /usr/texbin/kpsewhich
>>
>> The disable/re-enable of the map worked. yay!
>>
>> Any comments about the above paths or output from kpsewhich?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Gary.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> The system is, indeed, picking up the correct distribution so it  
> should all work now.
>
> Glad to hear that the disable/enable worked for you. It may have  
> been the hand changing of the config file that confused things.
>
> If you don't need the other distributions you might look into  
> removing them since they are just taking up HD space. I'd be a bit  
> careful since sometimes there are dependencies between fink packages.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
>
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