Mac OS with TexMaker

Question

I installed TexMaker latest (4.02 I think) on my MacBook, and got following message when trying to build a .tex file:

Could not start the command. "pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex

I have no idea what happened, and I also did not find much answer I need on internet. What is the problem? Could anyone help with that? Thanks a lot.

It could be that you have no LaTeX installation available (just the editor). One of such installations is TeXLive. If you do have it installed and from a terminal you can type pdflatex without getting a "not found" error, I recommend you clarify this in your question. — logo_writer, Aug 21 '17 at 03:30
For Mac, MacTeX would be suited for you. Please look if you have it installed. — logo_writer, Aug 21 '17 at 03:35
Are the paths set correctly in TeXMaker? The paths to the TeX binaries should be /Library/TeX/texbin not /usr/local/texbin. — Alan Munn, Aug 21 '17 at 03:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '17 at 04:08

TexMaker is an editor. You need a LaTeX distribution to compile the source files and produce the corresponding PDFs in your computer.

The Latex project points to distributions for several operating systems: https://www.latex-project.org/get/
The MacTex is a distro for Mac: http://www.tug.org/mactex/
Depending on your installation, the latex programs (including pdflatex) will be in /Library/TeX/texbin or /usr/texbin

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