On 2017-09-09, at 05:59 +1200, Michael Prenez-Isbell wrote: > so as it turns out, the path was set but I has to shut down computer > and > restart. kinda surprised to have that happen on a UNIX based system > but, > there ya go. macOS is based on UNIX but has been "improved". In this case, for the PATH to be updated with the addition contained in the `/etc/paths.d/TeX` file, the `path_helper` utility has to be run. This is done so in `/etc/profile`. Therefore you need to either source `/etc/profile` in the current shell or open a new shell, which of course is what happened when you restarted. > it all works splendidly now. > > > > On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 9:38:12 PM UTC-4, John Purnell > wrote: >> >> If you installed MacTeX or BasicTex then your PATH would have been >> appended to by a file TeX, which contains the path to the current TeX >> binaries of /Library/TeX/texbin, in the directory /etc/paths.d. If >> that >> file doesn’t exist, then you will either need to create it with >> those >> contents or add the path /Library/TeX/texbin to PATH by other means. >> >> On 2017-09-08, at 11:27 +1200, Michael Prenez-Isbell >> michael...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org >> wrote: >> >> >> >> pandoc can't find pdflatex now. >> >> it's here on my system: >> >> /Library/TeX/Root/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex >> >> >> >> if someone has a fix for this, that would be great. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> "pandoc-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an >> email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . >> To post to this group, send email to pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org >> . >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c7776fed-d510-4aac-8214-c2a58cc922b5%40googlegroups.com >> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/33d2f719-f7ac-4860-b752-9ac762f0a17b%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/2CADF22B-CB74-49CF-BD80-544B65FB63D0%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.