Ghostscript problem in the MacTeX 2023

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

Hi Sarthak,

great.  Everything should be functional, then.  Concerning LaTeXit, I rarely—if ever—use it, but there should be a configuration panel where you can tell it where to find the utilities as well as the main binaries. (I’ve had to do something similar, because I install TeXLive under /opt/texlive and brew stuff under /opt/brew, as I’ve never liked their takeover of /usr/local. So for me their switching to /opt/homebrew is a plus, but this is an OT discussion.)

—Ettore

> On Jun 3, 2023, at 10:31, Sarthak <vijaysarthak23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ettore.
> 
> Yes, symlinks to gs* binaries are there in    /opt/homebrew/bin.     (Indeed, I am on Apple Silicon.) Yes, it looks like the trouble (as Richard Koch of MacTeX pointed out to me in a recent email) is the result of brew changing directories for Apple Silicon devices, and still downloading Ghostscript as a dependency and not via MacTeX pkg (as you point out).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sarthak.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 6:05 PM Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu <mailto:ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>> wrote:
>> Sarthak, Norbert, Dick and others,
>> 
>> in the original post on tex.stackexchange.com <http://tex.stackexchange.com/>, Sarthak installed MacTeX via the brew —cask method. This results in the MacTeX dmg being installed and it is not a brew installation of TeXLive. Looking  at the cask formula, it looks like you end up with the a standard MacTeX installation with the GUI utilities but without Ghostscript, which is installed (by dependency) via brew. 
>> 
>> Sarthak, If this is a Silicon, the gs* binaries should be in symlinked into /opt/homebrew/bin, maybe?
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> —Ettore
>> 
>> Ettore Aldrovandi
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>> 
>>> On Jun 2, 2023, at 22:01, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info <mailto:norbert at preining.info>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>   2. In your last email, you meant "*...installed MacTeX not with brew...*",
>>>>   instead of "*...installed MacTeX now with brew...*", correct?
>>> 
>>> No, I meant
>>> 	I installed MacTeX with the proper MacTeX installer
>>> 	You installed MacTeX with brew.
>>> And as DIck's answer showed, that might be the problem.
>>> 
>>> BTW, please don't cross-post to texhax, support, .... at the same time,
>>> thanks
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> 
>>> Norbert
>>> 
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