[OS X TeX] Can't find required tool

George Gratzer gratzer at ms.umanitoba.ca
Tue Apr 4 19:38:43 CEST 2006


Did the easy way out: downloaded MacTeX20060314.dmg (Dobb's miror  
site is just upstairs from me) and reinstalled it.

1. It works.
2. It is more up-to-date.

Problem solved.

But what went wrong?

GG

On Apr 4, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> There should be, I imagine, some sort of syntax of kpsewhich  
>> allowing it to report where on your disk is the pdflatex that is  
>> used. But as usual, after reading again the relevant pp. 35--38  
>> of /Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/programs/kpathsea.pdf, I  
>> can't understand this syntax. I tried naively
>>
>> 	kpsewhich pdflatex
>>
>> with no luck.
>>
>> Bruno Voisin
>
> Howdy,
>
> Try
>
> which pdflatex
>
> in Terminal since this is really before kpsewhich is used.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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