[OS X TeX] Install fail

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Sep 2 21:02:39 EDT 2015


> On Sep 2, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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

Howdy,

If the initialization files have been edited the files in /etc/paths.d are NOT read. I'm hoping that the profile and bashrc files weren't touched since he was using tcsh. Then a change to what has become the standard shell for OS X, bash, might just solve the problem.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)









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