[OS X TeX] Font problem?

[Gerben Wierda]

It seems that not all of the BSD environment is there. Maybe it wasn't  
installed when you installed the OS?

G

On Jun 9, 2005, at 21:02, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:16 PM, François G. Schmitt wrote:
>
>>> Your path is not set correctly.  However, the i-installer should  
>>> have properly set this for you.  You can try to set it yourself so  
>>> you can run texhash to see if that fixes your font problem.  If you  
>>> have bash type:
>>>
>>> PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:$PATH
>>> export PATH
>>>
>>> or if you have tcsh type:
>>>
>>> setenv PATH /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:$PATH
>>>
>>> The problem is that whichever of the above commands works needs to  
>>> be in either ~/.bashrc or ~/.tcshrc respectively to make it  
>>> permanent, but you should never have to do this if everything was  
>>> installed properly in the first place (the path is changed in the  
>>> system initialization file not your personal initialization file).
>>>
>> I have changed the path (using the first alternative using bash):
>> the command 'sudo texhash' now runs, but other commands are not found:
>> sudo texhash
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texhash: line 2:  
>> sort: command not found
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texhash: line 2:  
>> uniq: command not found
>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texhash: line 147:  
>> tty: command not found
>
> OK, this is very bad!  sort, uniq and tty are system utilities (all  
> UNIX systems have them in fact).  Do they exist on your mac?:
>
> jackson% ls -l /usr/bin/sort
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  39976 16 Apr 02:33 /usr/bin/sort
>
> jackson% ls -l /usr/bin/uniq
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14388 16 Apr 02:34 /usr/bin/uniq
>
> jackson% ls -l /usr/bin/tty
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14520 16 Apr 02:33 /usr/bin/tty
>
> If they don't then, your system is in an inconsistent state.  If they  
> do exist, then there's something screwy with the PATH variable.  sudo  
> should use the PATH that your current shell uses, which means in this  
> case:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ 
> sbin:/sbin:/Users/francois_schmitt
>
> so these utilities should be found by texhash.
>
> Try:
>
> Start a new terminal window
>
>  	echo $PATH
> 	PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:$PATH
> 	export PATH
>  	echo $PATH
>
>  then
>
> 	sudo texhash
>
> What do each of these commands print out?
>
>>
>> BTW I could not find the folder  ~/.bashrc:
>> cd ~/.bashrc
>> -bash: cd: /Users/francois_schmitt/.bashrc: No such file or directory
>>
>
> It's not a directory, it's a file.  The file just contains shell  
> commands that are executed when the shell starts up.  You can create  
> it with any program that can save as pure text.
>
> Aaron
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