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<div class="">Let me provide more information than you really need, for clarity and since I don't know your exact situation. I'm one of the guys who create MacTeX and the MacTeX web pages, so I probably can answer your question.</div>
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<div class="">We have two install packages called MacTeX and BasicTeX which install TeX and configure everything automatically. If you used one of them, you'd have no problems. But unfortunately, we only support recent systems. In 2022 we support Mojave and
higher; recall that Mojave is macOS 10.14. If you are running such a recent system, I'd advise you to just install one of these packages.</div>
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<div class="">But perhaps you are using an older Macintosh which cannot be upgraded to a recent system. That is perfectly fine; Macs last a long time. I have a Mac I got in 2001 which still runs.</div>
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<div class="">When you have an older Macintosh, you often have to solve minor problems yourself using Unix and Terminal. That is the cost of sticking with an older machine. So in the end it may pay you to take a day or two and become used to Terminal. But perhaps
I can solve your problem without requiring that you use it right away.</div>
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<div class="">For older systems, Mojca Miklavek compiles x86_64-darwinlegacy, and that is the set of binaries you say that you installed. It sounds like the installation worked except for a minor problem. So you managed to do a little work with Terminal.</div>
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<div class="">Please go to <a href="https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-unix-download.html" class="">https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-unix-download.html</a>, the web page explaining how to do the Unix install. Further down the page, it suggests that you download and
install TeXDist-2022. Please do that.</div>
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<div class="">Let me explain what this small package did. First, it installed a symbolic link to the TeX binaries:</div>
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<div class="">So in Terminal, if you type</div>
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<div class="">you will see the complete list of TeX binaries. You should point your front end to this location to find TeX. I suspect it is already configured to go there.</div>
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<div class="">Second, TeXDist-2022 modified your PATH to add /Library/TeX/texbin to the search location. After that, you can call tlmgr from Terminal and the system will find it. Moreover you can now typeset from Terminal if you need to, but probably you can
avoid that step.</div>
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<div class="">I bet your problems will be solved.</div>
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<div class="">But if not, send another message to the mailing list.</div>
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<div class="">Richard Koch</div>
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