[OS X TeX] Install fail

[John Burt]

[C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $SHELL

/bin/tcsh


There is a symbolic link to texbin in the TeX folder


I see that I can get rid of the FINk material by throwing away the /sw
folder


John


Thanks for all your help!

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
wrote:

> > On Sep 2, 2015, at 12:45 PM, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> >
> > [C07H5099DJD2:~] burt% echo $PATH
> > /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin
> > [C07H5099DJD2:~] burt% which tar
> > /usr/bin/tar
> > [C07H5099DJD2:~] burt%
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Sep 2, 2015, at 12:26 PM, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > How do I remove this version of tar?
> > >
> > > How do I remove all of the fink software on my system?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > That's ancient and terrible! Ever since OS X 10.6 Plc code hasn't been
> supported. You really need to remove that stuff or you'll run into other
> problems in the future.
> > >
> > > Good Luck,
> > > Herb Schulz
> > >
> > > On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:42 AM, 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
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Ok. Let's try to follow Ettore's advice first.
> >
> > In Terminal run
> >
> > cd
> > ls -a
> >
> > and see which of .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc (notice the leading
> period) are present. Then, for each of the ones that are present run
> >
> > mv originalfile oldoriginalfile
> >
> > e.g., if .profile is present run
> >
> > mv .profile old.profile
> >
> > which will deactivate them as well as make them visible in your HOME
> foler in Finder.
> >
> > Then log out and back in and then open Terminal again and run
> >
> > echo $PATH
> > which tar
> >
> > and let us know what information is returned.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> >
> > Herb Schulz
> > (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
> Howdy,
>
> That looks pretty good for now; the Fink stuff won't be searched.
>
> I want to check to see if you are using bash as your shell in Terminal.
> What does
>
> echo $SHELL
>
> return?
>
> I'm wondering why /usr/texbin is in the PATH when MacTeX-2015 should have
> changed that to /Library/TeX/texbin. First see that texbin exists in
> /Library/TeX; Click on the Go Menu in Finder and click `Go to Folder…'
> (Shift-Cmd-G) typing /Library/TeX in the line and pressing Return and
> seeing of texbin is installed. Let us know if it's there and we'll fix up
> the PATH problem.
>
> Incidentally, you might try to install the Setup-2015.pkg in any case and
> see if that changes the result of
>
> echo $PATH
>
> to include /Library/TeX/texbin rather than /usr/texbin.
>
> By the way, this really has to be done if you ever want to update to OS X
> 10.11 (El Capitan) once it's released.
>
> Once this is fixed up there is no need to do anything with the FINK
> material.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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