[OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop

David Goldenberg goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
Sat May 31 21:39:20 EDT 2025


Dick and Herb,
   Thanks very much for your replies and suggestions.  

When I use the minimal example that Dick used, I see the same error in TeXShop.  But, I have discovered that if I override the error, by typing return in th console, things work as expected!  

Yes, the file in /Library/TeX/texbin is latexminted. But this is an alias to a python script, latexminted.py which is in /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/scripts/minted

The directory /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c does exist, but it is empty.

At this point, I can typset files using minted from TeXShop, but it still seems that something isn’t quite right.

Thanks again,
David
--
School of Biological Sciences
University of Utah
257 South 1400 East
Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0840


E-mail: goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
Web page: http://goldenberg.biology.utah.edu

> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:01:30 +0000
> From: David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu>
> To: "macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu" <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
> Message-ID: <CC049A4C-1301-4A1B-8B63-F577FF4CCF59 at biology.utah.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> School of Biological Sciences
> University of Utah
> 257 South 1400 East
> Salt Lake City, UT  84112-0840
> 
> 
> E-mail: goldenberg at biology.utah.edu
> Web page: http://goldenberg.biology.utah.edu
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 22:06:46 +0000
> From: Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
> Message-ID: <59B4772C-9573-47D1-A66C-956B170C5676 at uoregon.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> David,
> 
> I have never used minted and I'm going to an event later this evening.
> 
> I looked at the minted documentation, which in section 4.2 contains a
> "minimal complete example."
> 
> Here is the code:
> 
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \usepackage{minted}
> 
> \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> \begin{minted}[bgcolor=Beige, bgcolorpadding=0.5em]{c}
> 
> int main() {
> 
> printf("hello, world");
> 
> return 0;
> 
> }
> 
> \end{minted}
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> 
> I opened TeXShop and typeset this exact code in pdflatex without doing anything
> 
> else.  I typeset twice and got exactly the claimed output. Moreover,
> 
> by default TeXShop does not set --shell-escape, so TeXShop did not call shell escape.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you could send a longer example we could test.
> 
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 22:08:56 +0000
> From: Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
> Message-ID: <097FA40C-7DC4-4B85-BA2F-24A05B7ABE46 at uoregon.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> PS:
> 
> I keep my machine "plain vanilla." I don't install macports or other such
> software, and I don't set any environmental variables.
> 
> Dick
> 
> On May 30, 2025, at 3:06?PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 20:10:15 -0500
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs2 at mac.com>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
> Message-ID: <755CF705-3902-4213-BBFB-75956413A42A at mac.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 30, 2025, at 4:01?PM, David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> The latexminted.py executable is located in:
>> /Library/TeX/texbin 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I assume you mean The latexminted executable is located in:
> /Library/TeX/texbin not latexminted.py.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> herbs2 at mac.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 20:15:24 -0500
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs2 at mac.com>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem with minted and TeXShop
> Message-ID: <C11259FE-1A81-41DF-A0BB-C4B8BA478AD5 at mac.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Subject: Digest Footer
> 
> 
> -------------------------- Helpful Info --------------------------
> TeX FAQ: https://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/index.html
> List Reminders and Etiquette: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
> List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex
> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
> TeX on Mac OS X Website: https://www.tug.org/mactex/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> End of MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 210, Issue 5
> ******************************************



More information about the MacOSX-TeX mailing list