[OS X TeX] how open directories in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sat Nov 5 21:16:17 EDT 2011


On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> Instructions at http://www.pctex.com/kb/74.html say to put files for the PCTeX MathTimePro II and Lucida fonts into /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. But some of the subdirectories of the latter simply will not open in finder -- even after I change their permissions to make them readable and writeable by me (and I have administrator privileges).
> 
> This is the case, e.g., with the doc and source subdirectories.
> 
> Is there some way -- other than having to use long commands in Terminal to see what's there and to copy files to there?
> 

Howdy,

Could you run

ls -aFl /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

and let us know the output so we can see how the permissions and ownership are set?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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