I am a mac user but I have installed the TeX Live distribution without the help of MacTeX. The directory /usr/texbin
is missing and TeXShop or TeXworks won't compile.
I know that I can change the path to the bin in these applications, but I would prefer creating a /usr/texbin
(is it a symbolic link?) similar to the one created by MacTeX.
PS : Why do I am in this situation ? I wanted to update my installation to 2013. So, I downloaded the big .iso
file of the TeXLive distribution. But, TeXShop was still accessing the 2012 folder… So I removed this one, etc.
Best Answer
You can easily change the path for the TeX programs also with TeXShop and TeXworks; just make them point to
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-darwin
; the drawback is that you need to change this at every installation. MacTeX does this for you by creating an infrastructure in/Library/TeX
and making a symbolic link/usr/texbin
that's managed by the installer or by the TeX distribution pane in the System Preferences.If you don't want to download MacTeX and prefer to directly install TeX Live, you can create the symbolic link yourself by
(change
x86_64-darwin
touniversal-darwin
if you don't have a 64 bit system); just remember to doas soon as you install a new release, before creating the symbolic link again.