[OS X TeX] Yosemite install broke LaTeXiT (and Ghostscript)

[Gary L. Gray]

Hi All,

Earlier this week, after some testing on an external drive, I installed Yosemite DP8 on my main machine. Shortly after doing so, I needed to do something in LaTeXiT and I got the following message when I launched it

ghostscript not found or does not work as expected
The current configuration of LaTeXiT requires ghostscript to work.

Since LaTeXiT worked prior to the Yosemite install, I figured that Yosemite was the culprit. I tried running FixMacTeX2014.pkg and that didn't fix it. So, I went into /usr/local/bin and found the following

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        21 May 25 11:01 gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-X11
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33656924 Nov 26  2013 gs-X11
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33521280 Nov 26  2013 gs-noX11

gs was pointing to gs-X11 rather than gs-noX11 as I expected. I expect I could have fixed this easily in the Terminal, but I decided to grab MacTeX 2014 that I had on a thumb drive and reinstall Ghostscript to see if that fixed it. Sure enough, after doing so, I now see this

lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        23 Sep 17 17:38 gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33656924 Nov 26  2013 gs-X11
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33521280 Nov 26  2013 gs-noX11

and LaTeXiT works fine again. I hope this helps someone if the issue comes up again as people install Yosemite in the coming weeks.

Gary