[OS X TeX] a texdoc problem

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 14, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Vic Norton wrote:

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> On May 14, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> On May 14, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
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>>> Thanks for your advice, Herb. I update regularly with TLU. I just updated now. Texdoc wasn't on the outdated list.
>>> 
>>> That doesn't seem to be my problem. All my packages are up to date. But texdoc is a unix script. It is just supposed to open a PDF file. It doesn't work on my system. It can't find any file, and I don't know why not.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Vic
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>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Since there is no problem at this end I'd try to force a re-install of on the texdoc package in TeX Live Utility.
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>> It appears that texdoc is actually a tex-lua script since texdoc in /usr/texbin is a symbolic link to texdoc.lua.
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>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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> No success, Herb. I just reinstalled (via TLU)
>  universal-darwin files of texdoc
>  x86_64-darwin files of texdoc
> 
> No Change:
> ~$ texdoc listings
> /usr/texbin/texdoc:7: module 'texdoc.main' not found:
> 	no field package.preload['texdoc.main']
> 	[kpse lua searcher] file not found: 'texdoc.main'
> 	[kpse C searcher] file not found: 'texdoc.main'
> 	[kpse All-in-one searcher] file not found: 'texdoc'
> 
> Thanks for your interest.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic


Howdy,

Did you force a re-install of the texdoc package or just the texdoc.universal_darwin and texdoc.x86_64 packages which are simply symlinks?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)