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10.5: Make LaTeXit work on 10.5
Authored by: grahamdennis on Jan 02, '08 03:09:42PM

I was having the same problem on my laptop when I installed Leopard, but not on my desktop, and I didn't change /etc/profile on either. Further investigation (with the help of your comment) showed that the problem was that I had /opt/local/bin at the start of my PATH in my ~/.profile file on the laptop (this is what MacPorts suggests as a default), while on my desktop I had previously decided this was a bad idea, and put it at the end of my PATH variable.

Putting /opt/local/bin after the standard PATH in my ~/.profile file on the laptop fixed the problem (after logging out). It seems that /usr/libexec/path_helper reads the ~/.profile file, and I believe the reason your fix corrected the problem was that it basically amounted to putting /opt/local/bin after /bin, /usr/bin, etc.

Cheers,
Graham



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10.5: Make LaTeXit work on 10.5
Authored by: autumnmist on Jan 17, '08 08:59:59PM

This is indeed the way to fix things.



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