[OS X TeX] Yosemite install broke LaTeXiT (and Ghostscript)

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 17, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Gary L. Gray <euler at psu.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Earlier this week, after some testing on an external drive, I installed Yosemite DP8 on my main machine. Shortly after doing so, I needed to do something in LaTeXiT and I got the following message when I launched it
> 
> ghostscript not found or does not work as expected
> The current configuration of LaTeXiT requires ghostscript to work.
> 
> Since LaTeXiT worked prior to the Yosemite install, I figured that Yosemite was the culprit. I tried running FixMacTeX2014.pkg and that didn't fix it. So, I went into /usr/local/bin and found the following
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        21 May 25 11:01 gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-X11
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33656924 Nov 26  2013 gs-X11
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33521280 Nov 26  2013 gs-noX11
> 
> gs was pointing to gs-X11 rather than gs-noX11 as I expected. I expect I could have fixed this easily in the Terminal, but I decided to grab MacTeX 2014 that I had on a thumb drive and reinstall Ghostscript to see if that fixed it. Sure enough, after doing so, I now see this
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        23 Sep 17 17:38 gs -> /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33656924 Nov 26  2013 gs-X11
> -rwxrwxr-x   1 root  wheel  33521280 Nov 26  2013 gs-noX11
> 
> and LaTeXiT works fine again. I hope this helps someone if the issue comes up again as people install Yosemite in the coming weeks.
> 
> Gary

Howdy,

Did you have XQuartz installed under Mavericks; especially if you installed MacTeX-2014 after installing XQuartz? 

Is there a version of XQuartz that runs under Yosemite?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)