升级到 OSX 10.8.2 后“latex: command not found”

Question

I've been using the vim-latex suite on my mac (10.7.?) for months with no problem. Over the weekend, I upgraded the OS to 10.8.2, and now my tex files fail to compile. The compile command

\ll

produces no errors within vim, but no pdf-file gets produced. If I drop to the command line in a terminal, the following command

latex document.tex

produces

-bash: latex: command not found

Similarly, for pdflatex. I'm not sure if this is a path error, or if latex for 10.8.2 needs to be reinstalled. I'm not sure how to proceed in either case.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and typing:

export PATH=/usr/texbin:$PATH

seems to work fine in a shell. Although it no longer works if I open a new shell, this is a faster solution to re-downloading and re-installing the huge MacTeX program.

Answer 2

This happened to me after upgrading to OS X El Capitan. I found the latex executables in /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin . So, I just added this to my .bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin"

No need to reinstall.

Answer 3

On OS X, the standard way for third party installers to add a directory to the path is to put a file under /etc/paths.d . TeXLive does this as part of the installation, but the OS upgrade probably blew it away.

You should be able to just create a new file under that directory containing just one line, the path the directory containing the TeX executables.

Answer 4

When setting the path via @petew's answer, /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin may not be the correct version. On my system /usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/universal-darwin was what was needed. Make sure to check your texlive binaries to see what file you downloaded.