[OS X TeX] Newbie questions:

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.06.2006 um 11:59 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> That said, for some reason on my setup when telling "open-x11 xdvi"  
> in Terminal I get nothing, and when telling " /usr/local/teTeX/bin/ 
> powerpc-apple-darwin-current/xdvi" in X11 I get:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/xdvi: line 1:  
> kpsewhich: command not found
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/xdvi: line 46:  
> exec: xdvi-xaw.bin: not found
>
> which probably simply reflects the absence of proper path settings.

It's not that easy: you need, as I was complaining on the MacTeX  
list, a decent ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist for this to work. (I think  
I made earlier this year enough experiments on this topic in Mac OS X  
10.4/Tiger in bash or tcsh based environments to state this. But I am  
still curious if there is a way to solve this with RC files!)

And, Bruno, please learn that Gerben Wierda changed some time ago i- 
Installer in a way that is does not rely on false settings in  
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist. ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no more a  
bad thing for i-Installer -- it can be a threat for the runtime  
environment though! Meanwhile there are a few GUI applications to  
correct this file if needed.

--
Greetings

   Pete

Wasting time is an important part of living.


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