[OS X TeX] Install fail

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

They are also invisible to ls too, unless you run it as ls -a. As the command "file `which tar`" was run in Terminal.app it’s appropriate to continue working in it.

> On Sep 2, 2015, at 12:14, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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