[OS X TeX] Install fail

[Herb Schulz]

Howdy,

Those files are in you HOME folder but are invisible in Finder by default because their names start with a period. You need to do this in Terminal or change the Finder preferences to show hidden files. 

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz

> On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Fink is clobbering your shell startup files. You seem to be using bash: remove or rename the following files
> 
> .bash_profile
> .bashrc
> .profile (if you have it)
> 
> logout and login again, or Quit and reopen Terminal.app. That should give you a saner path. Please post the result of 
> 	
> 	echo $PATH
> 
> Let’s see if that helps. (The next step would be to blast the whole Fink tree.)
> 
> —Ettore
> 
> 
>> On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:42, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I assume that you used Migration Assistant when you got the new MacBook Pro. How long ago was the Fink distribution installed? Please run
>> 
>> file `which tar`
>> 
>> and see if it can even be executed under Yosemite.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> /sw/bin/tar: Mach-O executable ppc
>> 
>> and yes, it does work when I test it.
>> thanks for all this help!
>> John
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