Re: [O] pdflatex not found?

[Charles C. Berry]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Myles English wrote:

> John Hendy writes:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Peter Davis <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to export PDF from org, but I'm getting the error:
> > >
> > > pdflatex: Command not found. [3 times]
> > >
> > > I've checked the definition of exec-path, and it includes "/usr/texbin", which 
> > > is where tcsh tells me the executable is.
> >
> > Someone else might have a better answer, but can you check your system
> > itself first? I'm guessing "exec-path" is an Org/Emacs variable?
> >
> > Just try:
> >
> > $ which pdflatex
> >
> > Or
> >
> > $ pdflatex --version
> >
> > That would be my suggestion for starters. At least then you know it's
> > definitely not your system/setup (my bet is that it is, though).
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > -pd
>
> pd,
>
> After trying what has alreaddy been suggested you might try putting your
> cursor after the last bracket of this and pressing C-x C-e to see what
> emacs thinks your shell PATH environment variable is set to:
>
> (getenv "PATH")
>
> If you can't see the correct path in there then it should probably be
> set in ~/.profile or equivalent for tcsh rather than in ~/.tcshrc (I
> don't use tcsh so I just guessed that filename).

Or put something like

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setenv "PATH"
     "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin")
#+END_SRC

in your init file.

HTH,

Chuck