On Aug 30, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
Karen Chang wrote:
Hi,
I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error:
Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation. Run Manually.
How would I go about doing that? Have I done something wrong
during the
installation?
Open a terminal window (maybe it has some special Mac name, I don't
know) and type "texhash", return. But if LyX couldn't run it, I'm
doubtful you can, either. Do you have LaTeX installed? If not, you
need to install that first before LyX will give you any output.
On Mac, it's Terminal.app (in /Applications/Utilities/). If you
simply run "texhash", you'll get some warnings about certain
directories not being writable (because you don't have permission).
They can safely be ignored or, if you like, you can run "sudo
texhash" from an administrative account and give your administrative
password.
I agree with Richard: if the LyX installer couldn't run texhash,
there's likely something wrong with the TeX installation. (Did you
install MacTeX, e.g.? -- <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>.)
Bennett
