[texworks] Message from TeXworks user

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 3, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Mario Manissero <mario.manissero at yahoo.it> wrote:

> Hello Folks
> 
> I know that this is not a news but i'm became creasy around this problem.
> 
> Schenario:
> Two mac os pc: first (macbook pro) with texworks installed and works fine
> 
> Second bough years later (iMac), has the same applications because using the same user, the new mac make clone user folder. At the end I have two equal pc, on the paper. 
> 
> Problem:
> On the older all works fine, as i said before, but the problem is on the newer where the export in pdf doesn't works. "! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found."
> This messages come out from compiling the same basic latex template.
> I tried to instal other latex sw but they didn't works with the same errors. Seems that the library are not available.
> Due to that I have reinstalled many revisions of texworks but the situations doesn't change.
> Can someone help me to make ok the second pc with texworks?
> 
> 
> PC OK
> ----- configuration info ----- 
> TeXworks version : 0.4.3r858 (personal)
> Install location : /Applications/TeX/TeXworks.app
> Library path     : /Users/mario/Library/TeXworks/
> pdfTeX location  : /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdftex
> Operating system : Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64)
> Qt4 version      : 4.7.3 (build) / 4.7.3 (runtime)
> ------------------------------
> 
> PC KO
> 
> ----- configuration info -----
> TeXworks version : 0.4.3r858 (personal)
> Install location : /Applications/TeXworks.app
> Library path     : /Users/mario/Library/TeXworks/
> pdfTeX location  : /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/universal-darwin/pdftex
> Operating system : Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64)
> Qt4 version      : 4.7.3 (build) / 4.7.3 (runtime)
> ------------------------------
> 
> Cheers
> Mario


Howdy,

I'm not sure what you mean by ``clone'' but how did you transfer the TeX distribution? Did you use Migration Assistant? then there are possible symbolic links that are messed up. Please run

which pdflatex

as well as

ls -al /usr

and

ls -al /usr/texbin

in Terminal and let us know what those commands return.

You might want to download and install the latest MacTeX which installs TeX Live 2012. You can get it at <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>. If you go that way you can update the installed TeX Live to have the latest versions of packages, etc., by using the TeX Live Utility found in /Applications/TeX.

Finally, you say you cloned the Users folder but it appears that TeXworks is in a different folder on the two machines. That shouldn't cause a problem but I don't understand how that happened if you cloned the folders.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)