[OS X TeX] TeX path

Ettore Aldrovandi ealdrov at math.fsu.edu
Sat Jul 28 11:37:49 EDT 2012


On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:30:43AM -0400, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 01:13:02PM +0200, Ulrich Groh wrote:
> > I have just migrated to the new Mac OS and now the path to pdaflatex etc has gone (runnig TeXLive2012). Where is the script file which one had to use in the TeXLive2011 case? 
> > 
> > Ulrich
> 
> Hi,
> 
> are you referring to the fact that pdflatex is not in the shell PATH variable? The upgrade will have removed the file /etc/paths.d/TeX
> (the Lion upgrader did that too, if memory serves).  You'll have to recreate it. In  a Terminal session:
> 
> $ echo "/usr/texbin" > TeX
> $ sudo cp TeX /etc/paths.d/

I forgot to say:

(1) Create the file TeX above in a directory you have access to.
(2) You can trash it after having run the sudo command.

--Ettore

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