[OS X TeX] TeXLive-2007: "/usr/bin/pdflatex does not exist!" Now what?!

[Greg Starr]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Richard Koch wrote:

> Greg,
>
> I have been trying to reproduce this problem, without success.  
> Moreover, by searching through
> the code, I cannot find a spot where it would happen.
>
> My guess is that installing MacTeX_Additions last is a red herring,  
> and that you didn't have
> /usr/local/texlive/2007 after you installed TeXLiveMTS-2007.
>
> Could you answer a few questions? Did you have an earlier TeX  
> installation? If so,
> what? Had you earlier installed any MacTeX package? Did you install  
> Gerben
> Wierda's TeX? If so, his old deprecated version, or his gwTeX?
>
> Is it possible for you to remove /usr/local/texlive/2007 and try  
> the experiment again. Can you
> reproduce the problem?
>
> Sorry, but I'm grasping at straws here!!!
>
> Dick Koch
> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>
>

Dick,

It's a moot point for me since it all works now, but...this was a  
completely new installation.  You're right, I had previously  
installed TeXLiveMTS-2007 but I then completely erased the drive and  
reinstalled 10.4.8.  So it should have been all new.  Very strange  
that installing TeXLive-2007 before MacTeX_Additions would have  
caused this behavior...

	--gps

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