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I downloaded texlive 2015 from the Tex Users Group web and successfully installed. After installation I added these lines in my .bashrc:

PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x68_64-linux:$PATH; export PATH
MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH
INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH

However when I try to run it I get:

~$ latex
The program LaTeX is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

Same using latex --version.

This is a clean installation on a x64 Ubuntu 14.04 system. I have successfully installed latex 2013 (and previous versions) before in other machines just with ./install-tl and setting the PATH. Any idea what could be the problem?

Edit:

echo $PATH gives me:

/home/jaime/science/Ureka/variants/common/bin:/home/jaime/science/Ureka/bin:/home
/jaime/science/Ureka/python/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x68_64-linux:/usr
/local/texlive/2015/bin/x68_64-linux:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr
/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
EternalGenin
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  • Doesn't look like you've actually added it to the path: what does for example echo $PATH or command -v latex give? – Joseph Wright May 04 '16 at 18:26
  • I'll edit my question with the output from echo $PATH. No results for command -v latex – EternalGenin May 04 '16 at 18:54
  • Case matters, you are exporting path in lower case. Also, move this to dot profile, log out and in again. It does not belong in bashrc (will give you headache later on). Btw: are you using standard Ubuntu, no switch to exotic shells? – daleif May 04 '16 at 18:59
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    As observed, you want x86_64 in those paths, not x68_64 – Joseph Wright May 04 '16 at 19:02
  • @JosephWright could have been days and I still would not see it. Thanks a lot! – EternalGenin May 04 '16 at 19:09
  • @daleif lower case was just a typo but thanks for noticing. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but I've always done it on .bashrc since I could not make it work doing it on .profile (since ubuntu 10 or so) – EternalGenin May 04 '16 at 19:14
  • @JVR For what it's worth, not long ago (couple months?) I installed TeX Live 2015 on Ubuntu 14.04 following this set of instructions. It includes guidelines for PATH as well. Progbably you've seen that already, but mention it "just in case". Working a treat for me. – Dɑvïd May 04 '16 at 19:14
  • @JVR you are fine if you start everything through a commandline (I almost always do that). But say you start TeXmaker from a menu, then if PATH is set in .bashrc then that shell is never used and TeXmaker cannot call LaTeX, that is why is it better to recommend adding it to .profile then it works in all cases. – daleif May 04 '16 at 19:22
  • You PATH looks fine now. Does which latex give any results? – daleif May 04 '16 at 19:23
  • @daleif ok thanks for that info, I'll give it a try again with .profile. Latex is working now, it was just a typo in the PATH, thanks ;) – EternalGenin May 04 '16 at 19:37

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I don't think your .bashrc is correct. Try reading this post here on how to do it.

In particular your PATH variable should be set like this:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux

without the semicolon at the end. You also don't need to export.

I believe you have made a typo in your post. It should be x86_64-linux and not x68_64-linux as you have written!

After doing that, don't forget to open a new shell before you test if it worked.