[OS X TeX] MacTeX 2008: Can't find base packages

[Simon Spiegel]

On 13.09.2008, at 11:53, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed MacTeX2008 and have a strange problem. I did the  
>> installation without any problems and also already did several  
>> updates with tlmgr-gui. Most of my stufff compiles just fine, but  
>> today I tried the following minimal document which to my surprise  
>> didn't compile:
>>
>> \documentclass{book}
>> \begin{document}
>> test
>> \end{document}
>>
>> According to both pdflatex and kpsewhich, basic document classes  
>> like article.cls and book.cls are not here. The document compiles  
>> if I change 'book' to 'scrbook' (and kpsewhich gives me the  
>> following path: /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma- 
>> script/scrbook.cls. So most packages are actually there, but for  
>> some strange reason the base packages are not present.
>>
>> Any Ideas?
>>
>> Simon
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Did you ever get error messages when updating with tlmgr?

I did several updates in the last days, there were errors because the  
net connection wasn't always there, but I can't remember specific  
errors. Anyway, the last update I did was without any errors.

simon


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