[OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop

[Herbert Schulz]

> On May 30, 2025, at 4:01 PM, David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   Having learned about minted in a post to this group last month, I have been exploring it a bit.  I have tried it with three different Macs with very similar, but not identical configurations.  On two, I was able to get it to work without much trouble, but on the third, I am getting this error when I try to typeset a LaTeX file with minted from TeXShop:
> 
> ./minted_test.tex:61: Package minted Error: minted v3+ executable is not installed or is not added to PATH; or MiKTeX is being used with -aux-directory or -output-directory without setting a TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY environment variable.
> 
> But, I can typset the file using pdflatex from the command line without any obvious problems. So, I presume this has something to do with how TeXShop is looking for what it needs.
> 
> In TeXShop, the path is set to:
> /Library/TeX/texbin
> and the LaTeX engine is set to:
> pdflatex --file-line-error --synctex=1 -shell-escape
> 
> The latexminted.py executable is located in:
> /Library/TeX/texbin 
> (The file is an alias to /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/scripts/minted/latexminted.py)
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> David Goldenberg
> 
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> 
> 
> E-mail: goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
> Web page: http://goldenberg.biology.utah.edu

Howdy (again),

Also. do you happen to have a texmf.cnf file located in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c? Run

ls /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

in Terminal and see if texmf.cnf comes up. (The command may fail if that folder doesn't exist.)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs2 at mac.com