<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 March 2018 at 06:49,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@aspodata.se" target="_blank">karl@aspodata.se</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As user texlive.texlive I installed texlive2017, but I have trouble<br>
getting it to work.<br>
<br>
E.g.:<br>
$ kpsewhich article.cls<br>
$ find . -name article.cls<br>
./2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/<wbr>base/article.cls<br>
$ pwd<br>
/usr/local/texlive<br>
$<br>
<br>
any ideas ?<br>
<br>
=======================<br>
 I have added:<br>
MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/<wbr>texlive/2017/texmf-dist/doc/<wbr>man<br>
INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/local/<wbr>texlive/2017/texmf-dist/doc/<wbr>info<br>
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/<wbr>2017/bin/x86_64-linux<br> [...]</blockquote><div><br></div><div>OP Karl  has:</div><div><br></div><div>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">$ ls -l /usr/local</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 23  2016 /usr/local -> ../home/local</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">

<br></div><div>TL is designed so you can put it anywhwere in your filesystem</div><div>and have it work by adjusting the PATH variable.  Is there any</div><div>pressing reason to use /usr/local/texlive over /home/local/texlive?</div><div><br></div><div>OP Karl -- can you try:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">  PATH=/home/local/texlive/2017/bin/<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">x86_64-linux:$PATH</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">It could be instructive to play around with the kpsewhich debugging</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">options.</span></div><div><br></div></div>
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