Re: pdflatex not found?

["Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Myles English wrote:

>
>
> John Hendy writes:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> 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