[OS X TeX] les bins MacteX ne sont pas dans le PATH ?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 4, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Yvon Thoraval wrote:

> 2012/7/4 NMPOST7 <nmpost7 at gmail.com>
> 
>> On 04/07/2012 13:21, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
>>> j'ai installé hier MacTeX 2011 et je constate que les binaires (soit le
>>> répertoire '/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin') ne sont pas dans
>> le
>>> PATH, est-ce volontaire ?
>>> ceci di, TeXShop, fonctionnel, trouve bien ses petits...
>>> comme j'ai un iMac Intel, je pense que je dois utiliser ce répertoire :
>>> "/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin".
>>> qu'en pensez-vous ?
>> 
>> sorry, I do not know french. but got it translated on google (not always a
>> good
>> solution, but the only I had at the moment)
>> Try solution suggested by Herbert. I hope I understood what you wrote!
>> 
>> ---quote
>> 
>> Assuming you have MacTeX-2011 installed...
>> 
>> Installing a new major OS version (not minor version updates) often messes
>> up
>> paths and the symbolic link /usr/texbin. I suggest going to
>> <http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/prefpane.html> and downloading and running
>> FixMacTeX2011.pkg. That should fix up those links, etc.
>> 
>> 
> U understood me very well, right now (after  FixMacTeX2011.pkg), i do have :
> 
> $ ls -al /usr :
> <snip />
> lrwxr-xr-x     1 root  wheel     63  4 jul 13:32 texbin ->
> /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin
> 
> and :
> $ ls -al /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  4  4 jul 13:32
> /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin -> i386
> 
> and :
> $  ls -al /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/
> total 32
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  admin  204  4 jul 13:32 .
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root  admin  408  4 jul 00:29 ..
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin   61  4 jul 00:29 i386 ->
> ../../../../../../../usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin   64  4 jul 00:29 powerpc ->
> ../../../../../../../usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin   64  4 jul 00:29 ppc ->
> ../../../../../../../usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    4  4 jul 13:32 texbin -> i386
> 
> then, the "DefaultTex" is the one i suggested :
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin
> 
> BUT, it remains :
> $ which dvips
> dvips not found
> 
> Then, /usr/texbin isn't in the PATH.
> may be this has to be bone by user ?
> 
> Or noone uses CLI anymore ?

Howdy,

First, please restart Terminal after running FixMacTeX2011, or, at least, open a new session. Then check your PATH to make sure /usr/texbin is on the PATH. (The CLI hasn't been abandoned! :-))

From what you are saying above you are using TeX Live 2010 rather than TeX Live 2011 I'm not sure FixMacTeX2011 will really help. Wait... you say you installed MacTeX-2011 which installs TeX Live 2011! Assuming you are using OS X 10.5 or later (TeX Live 2011 will not run under 10.4 or earlier) and you really did install MacTeX-2011.

Did you install MacTeX from the DVD? If so you may have a bad version of the TeX Distribution Preference Pane in System Preferences. It should be `v. 2.0 (Build 150)' in the lower left corner of the Preference Pane. FixMacTeX2011 should fix that.

I've also seen a situation where permissions were set improperly on /usr (the x bit must be set for all or the system won't look inside). Could you please check that too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)