[texhax] MacTEX + command line

[Rolf Turner]

On 10/11/2008, at 8:51 AM, Crystal Martin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a long time LaTeX "user", but I do not have much experience with
> software installation.
>
> I'm running Leopard on a MacPro with tc shell. I installed the MacTEX
> package from CTAN, and TeXShop is working.
>
> When I try to run LaTeX from the command line, I get "latex:  
> Command not
> found."  I'm guessing that my PATH needs to be modified. I made  
> a .cshrc
> file, but I'm not sure what to put in it.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.

Well, this will be a case of the blind leading the blind, but ....

I am perforce using a Mac, and don't really understand OS X --- I  
treat the
system as being Unix as much as I can.  I do have latex working, but.

When I type ``which latex'' I get /usr/texbin/latex, so /usr/texbin  
has to
be in my path; and it is.  When I type echo $path I get

/sw/bin /sw/sbin /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/ 
texbin /Users/rturner/.bin . /usr/X11R6/bin

I didn't do anything to get /usr/texbin into my path (i.e. there's no  
reference to it
in my .cshrc) --- it just seems to be there.  If it isn't there for  
you, try adding it
to your path in your .cshrc.

HTH.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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