[OS X TeX] a texdoc problem

[Vic Norton]

Problem solved.

I have MacPorts installed on my system, and there is a version of TeX in there. This TeX is used to read support documents for certain ported applications, e.g. octave.

Once I changed the ~/.bashrc = ~/.bashprofile line
   export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
to
   export PATH=/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH 
my texdoc problem was solved.

Thanks for the help!

Regards,

Vic

On May 15, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Johannes Kuester wrote:

> Most probably this is a problem with the PATH variable; it seems you use a luatex which is not the one from TeXLive.
> 
> See here:
> http://tug.org/pipermail/texdoc/2011q3/000285.html
> 
> I experienced the same problem here (I never used texdoc before), by changing the order of directories in the PATH variable texdoc works now.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Johannes
> 
> 
> Am 15.05.12 13:39, schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>> 
>> On May 14, 2012, at 7:57 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 14, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On May 14, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 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 Texdoc wasn't on the outdated list.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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> It appears that texdoc is actually a tex-lua script since texdoc in /usr/texbin is a symbolic link to texdoc.lua.
>>>> 
>>>> Good Luck,
>>>> 
>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>> 
>>> 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)
>