[OS X TeX] problems after getting new iMac
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Mon Nov 3 13:02:21 EST 2014
> On Nov 3, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> On Nov 3, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Art Werschulz <agw at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Answers to Herb's questions (which seem to have included Dick's and Ettore's):
>>
>>> What OS are you running?
>>
>> OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10). I'm pretty sure that's standard on all newly-purchased Macs.
>>
>>> Did you try to install FixMacTeX2014.pkg (found in /Applications/TeX)? That will fix up /usr/texbin. Migration Assistant doesn't seem to like symbolic links so strange stuff happens.
>>
>> Having not done so originally, I have now done so, as well as nuking /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin from my PATH.
>> It made no difference:
>
> I was actually asking to directly run
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex
>
> from the command line. Now that you have somehow sanitized the PATH, what does happen if you run the above (bypassing the symlink chain)?
>
> But the problem seems to lie with:
>
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
>> mktexfmt: No such file or directory
>> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>
> So, second question: what does
>
> kpsewhich -engine=pdftex pdflatex.fmt
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> return? (Maybe you want to run /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin/kpsewhich).
>
> --Ettore
>
>
> 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
Howdy,
It might also be worthwhile to run
which kpsewhich
to make sure it's /usr/texbin/kpsewhich.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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