[OS X TeX] Install fail

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

OK, you definitely run /bin/tcsh as your shell. It seems you have the correct things in /etc/paths.d and texbin is in the right place.

We have to understand why the path is not correctly set, see later messages. Herb suggests to check the global initialization files in /etc. Let’s see if that turns anything up.

—Ettore

> On Sep 2, 2015, at 15:14, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> 
> [C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $SHELL
> /bin/tcsh
> [C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $shell
> /bin/tcsh
> [C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% ls -F /Library/TeX
> Distributions/	Documentation@	Local@		Root@		texbin@
> 
> .login does not exist, but .cshrc does (and is empty).
> 
> 
> thanks so much!
> John
> 
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu <mailto:ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 2, 2015, at 14:22, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu <mailto:burt at brandeis.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> [C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $SHELL
>> /bin/tcsh
> 
> Oh my! As far as I remember, Fink sets things up so that .profile is sourced into .tcshrc or .cshrc so the problem may have been taken care of anyway (Herb, the path stuff in tcsh startup files is different.) Could you please run:
> 
> echo $SHELL
> echo $shell
> 
> (Yes, I mean both!)?
> 
> 
>> There is a symbolic link to texbin in the TeX folder
> 
> Yes, but the chain of symbolic links should be correctly set up for the tex pref panel to operate. As Herb has explained, we need to know if texbin is in the directory /Library/TeX. So what does
> 
> ls -F /Library/TeX
> 
> returns? Then, again as Herb pointed out, running the Setup-2015.pkg should help.
> 
> To be sure everything is alright, do you have files:
> 
> .login
> .cshrc and/or .tcshrc
> 
> in your home directory? Again, running
> 
> cd
> ls -a
> 
> should show them. In that case it would be helpful to know their content. 
> 
>> 
>> I see that I can get rid of the FINk material by throwing away the /sw folder
>> 
> 
> Good.
> 
> 
> —Ettore
> 
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