Yes, it sounds like there is no TeX installation anymore, Chances are that it's still in the "Previous System" directory. You can try to copy it over: sudo cp -r /"Previous System"/usr/local/teTeX /usr/local8 The tricky part is the "Previous System." I don't know what this directory is really called, but if the name doe contain a space. you'll have to "escape" it, either by putting quotation marks around it or by using \. The next step would be to put the appropriate directory in your $PATH. You could either rerun Gerben's installer, or just open the file /etc/profile in a text editor (you'll need root privileges to do that) and add the appropriate lines: ## TeX modifications start at Sun Aug 28 ## Do not remove the previous line if [ `whoami` != "root" ] then PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8" export PATH fi ## Do not remove the next line ## TeX modifications end at Sun Aug 28 at the end of the file. Save, open another shell, and you should be back in business. Good luck Thomas On Aug 26, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
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