[Tex/LaTex] Mac OS with TexMaker

Question

I installed TexMaker latest (4.02 I think) on my MacBook, and got following message when trying to build a .tex file:

Could not start the command.
"pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex

I have no idea what happened, and I also did not find much answer I need on internet. What is the problem? Could anyone help with that? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

TexMaker is an editor. You need a LaTeX distribution to compile the source files and produce the corresponding PDFs in your computer.

• The Latex project points to distributions for several operating systems: https://www.latex-project.org/get/
• The MacTex is a distro for Mac: http://www.tug.org/mactex/
• Depending on your installation, the latex programs (including pdflatex) will be in /Library/TeX/texbin or /usr/texbin

You may check more information at: How to configure Texmaker to work on Mac with MacTeX? and Texmaker on MacOS Sierra