[OS X TeX] Can't find required tool
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Aug 31 14:02:08 CEST 2016
> On Aug 30, 2016, at 9:57 PM, Richard J Benish <rjbenish at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> On a G5 with Mac OS 10.4.11, I've been using TeXShop v 2.33 for years. Without consciously having changed anything to affect the program, suddenly, when I hit the typeset button I get the error message:
>
>
> "Can't find required tool.
>
> "/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not exist. Perhaps TeXLive was not installed or was removed during a system upgrade. If so, go to the TeXShop web site and follow the instructions to (re)install TeXLive. Another possibility is that a tool path is incorrectly configured in TeXShop preferences. This can happen if you are using the fink teTeX distribution."
>
>
> I've tried restarting, correcting permissions, and reinstalling. After failing to find an old install version on the web, I tried installing from a locally saved copy of:
>
> MacTeX-2011.mpkg
>
> This resulted in a grayed out list of components which, when I clicked on INSTALL, resulted in an error saying "There is nothing to Install." Could that be because the non-functioning version needs to be uninstalled first? If so I hesitate to do so before getting confirmation.
>
> I've haven't found anything on the web to get me back to a properly functioning application.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard Benish
Howdy,
First... are you sure your not having Hard Disk problems?
In Terminal please run the five commands
which pdflatex
ls -alF /
ls -alF /usr
ls -alF /usr/local
ls -alF /usr/local/texlive
and let us know the results.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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