[OS X TeX] problems after getting new iMac

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

If you originally installed the MacTeX distribution, then the correct path should be /usr/texbin, so you may want to check that. There's a chain of symlinks from /usr/texbin to the actual /usr/local/texlive/2014 location, and there is a chance that may have been broken in the process. 

To begin with, does invoking /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex result in a successful run?

--Ettore

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Art Werschulz <agw at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I recently got a new iMac.  I ran the Migration Assistant to bring over stuff from my old iMac.  I was a little surprised that (say) pdflatex wasn't in /usr/local/bin, but no big problem---I simply added /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin to my PATH.  But upon running pdflatex (either from the command line or from within Aquamacs/AUCTeX), I get a message saying that the format file pdflatex.fmt wasn't found.  But 
> 	agw at home:~$ find /usr/local/texlive/2014 -name pdflatex.fmt
> 	/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt
> and so it's there.  
> 
> What chnages must I make for TeX to start running again?
> 
> FTR, I'm running Yosemite.
> 
> Art Werschulz
> agw at comcast.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------
> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
> List Reminders and Etiquette: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
> TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/
> List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex
> 



Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
1017 Academic Way                *    http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu