Thomas—
ls -al /usr/local/teTeX
returns
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Aug 26 16:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 26 16:12 ..
I take it that my installation has been crunched, and my guess is
that it happened in the process of configuring the cloned backup for
use on my laptop (i.e., in installing the version of OSX appropriate
for a PowerBook as opposed to the original PowerMac). The process
creates a folder called “Previous System” and the promise is that it
will move all the stuff across that it can. But I now think that it
has just clobbered my TeX installation. Does that seem right to you?
Alan
On Aug 26, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
This sounds like the problem is not with your symlink, but with
your TeX installation. Are you sure it has been copied to your
backup disk? How did you clone the disk? What does the command
ls -al /usr/local/teTeX
return?
Best
Thomas
On Aug 26, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thomas—
At this point I am not sure how to diagnose the problem(s) or to
solve it (them).
But, for the record, when I open Terminal and type
cd /Library
sudo ln -s /usr/local/teTeX ./teTeX
the teTeX alias is regenerated. Yet, when I try to open teTeX by
double clicking the alias icon, I get
The alias “teTeX” could not be opened because the original
item could not be found.
Is the original still somewhere on my backup disk (a clone of my
setup back home) or has it been destroyed?
And you are right, I still cannot get past the
tcsh: texexec: Command not found
error when I try to process a file.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I am hoping to get some
writing done while I am away, and I am committed to using ConTeXt
in the various projects.
Best, Alan
On Aug 26, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Alan,
re-establishing the link is not difficult: in the Terminal, type
cd /Library
sudo ln -s /usr/local/teTeX ./teTeX
But you're aware that the broken link has nothing to do with your
problem, right?
Best
Thomas
On Aug 26, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
I am working from a backup of my ConTeXt/teTeX installation (in
MacOS X 10.4.2) and find that when I try to typeset files, I now
get the error message:
tcsh: texexec: Command not found.
In trying to deal with this, I discovered that the alias of
teTeX in my Library folder is broken. I guess the question is
“How do I re-establish the link?”, given that the original seems
to be invisible. Or is there something else I must do (too)?
I apologize for the newbie question—my dream is to have some
time to learn about unix and the teTeX installation. ’Til now I
have relied on Gerben’s i-installer to do most of the thinking
for me. Indeed, I would just re-install everything, were it not
for the fact that I am currently limited to access by 56K modem.
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