Cannot find pdfLatex after upgrade to Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

Question

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) now pdflatex cannot be found.

I am using TexWorks to compile.

I get the error TeX may be installed I just need to find it.

Where can I find the install location? I checked the settings and TexWorks reports LaTeX was in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. How can I fix this issue?

TexWorks recommends me check /usr/bin.

Answer 1

Mine was moved to /Library/TeX/Root/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex, hope that helps!

Answer 2

If you are using homebrew, you'll get this message on the client:

Installing TeX from source is weird and gross, requires a lot of patches, and only builds 32-bit (and thus can't use Homebrew deps on Snow Leopard.)

We recommend using a MacTeX distribution: https://www.tug.org/mactex/

You can install it using Cask:

brew cask install mactex

So that's exactly what I'm doing. Using 'sudo' in front of the command, though, to facilitate installation.

After this, on pre-El Capitan systems, pdflatex would be found in /usr/texbin, however, with El Capitan, installations to /usr are no longer allowed. Hence, you will now find pdflatex and other related binaries in /Library/TeX/texbin. (Many thanks to the R-Bloggers website for this suggestion.) Just add this path to your $PATH env variable.

Answer 3

I use zsh and had to add /Library/TeX/texbin to my path in ~/.zshrc with:

export PATH="$PATH:/Library/TeX/texbin"

since zsh doesn't, apparently, use /usr/libexec/path_helper to load /etc/paths.d automatically and I didn't want to throw another variable into the equation by adding it (and all the other stuff in /etc/paths.d) without spending more time figuring out exactly what else that was going to do.

Answer 4

Yes. Mine moved to /Library/TeX/Root/bin/x86_64-darwin as well. I added this path in my TeXworks Preferences->Typesetting tab under the "Paths for TeX and related programs". Everything seems to be working as usual, though I have not yet checked raw tex and ConTeXt. But I guess things should be fine.

Answer 5

Just to mention that if you want to add the path in TexShop. The correct tab is "Engine"--"Path settings", and paste "/Library/TeX/Root/bin/x86_64-darwin" to the first input line.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

TeXworks -> Preferences -> Typesetting

Click the + button for the first box and Choose the path of texbin which contain many file including pdflatex.

In my case this the path: /Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin

Answer 7

In my case, i typed a command "which pdflatex" at the terminal then it shows /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex. After that, i selected the option in the preferences as in this picture: