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MacTeX is an open source TeX distribution for Mac OS X.

MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends. It is also pre-configured to work out-of-the-box with Mac OS X as it provides sensible defaults for configuration options that, in TeX Live, are left up to the user to allow for its cross-platform compatibility.

For more information see: MacTeX.

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Checking MacTeX version installed on a Mac

I can use latex -v to check the version of LaTeX. Is there a way to check what version of MacTeX (MacTeX 2008, 2009 or 2010) is installed?
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How do I set up MacTeX so admin rights aren't necessary?

I'd like to set the permissions of /usr/local/texlive so that I don't need admin rights to update my distribution with TeX Live Manager (or tlmgr), and so on. What's the best way to do this? Are there any caveats I need to be aware of? Kent, below,…
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How do I tell MacTeX about my user-install of Live TeX?

This question is similar to How do I set up MacTeX so admin rights aren't necessary?. I have a Mac at work, and the sysadmins won't give me write permissions to /usr/local/texlive. So, per the instructions in Is there any way to have a LaTeX…
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Auto-refresh and mac os

It's my first time to write latex with Mac os (or in fact, using Mac os in general) and unlike with Windows I'm having some trouble viewing my output files. I'm using texmaker. I would like to have either dvi or pdf viewer constantly open and…
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MacTex 2022 issues

I have two MacBookAirs, an older one where I installed MacTex-2018 and a newer one where I installed Mac Tex 2021. MacTex works superbly in both cases. My older laptop died and I got a new MacAir and I have installed MacTex2022. The result is …
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Where is the "Local Guide to LaTeX for the McKludge PC" aka the Local Guide on Mac?

In Leslie Lamport's book, he refers to the local guide. I know the book's old, but Oetiker references it as well in the Not so short guide to LaTeX 2016 edition: Each LATEX installation should provide a so-called LATEX Local Guide, which explains…
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MacTex: Cannot find input file

I have a minimal LaTeX file called untitled.tex. btrost@rt4382m-ggb: ~/Desktop>cat untitled.tex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hi \end{document} When I run pdflatex on the file, which obviously exists, it says it can't find the…
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MacTex (texlive) - pn2pdf: command not found

My MacTex seems to be missing the "pn2pdf" executable I searched the whole harddrive, but it only finds the corresponding documentation. I tried sudo tlmgr install --reinstall petri-nets but file is still missing, although tlmgr reports petri-nets…
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MacTeX 2015 running much slower than MacTeX 2014?

I just installed MacTeX 2015 on OS X 10.6.8, and it is typesetting significantly slower than the 2014 distribution; for one particular file, 2014 will typeset it in 11 seconds, but 2015 takes 77 seconds (!). Has anyone else had this problem? If…
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Installing MacTeX, multiple user accounts

A question, before I start to install MacTeX (on OSX 10.8.5): I have two different acoounts on my Mac: One for admin purposes only, and another one - which has no admin privileges - for the actual work. As far as I understand, I should install…
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MacTeX: Page-Up and Page-Down Keys Reversed in Skim and TeXshop

this may not even be a mactex question, because the problem occurs both in skim and texshop, osx Yosemite. I like to look at documents in single page view, and use cursor and page-up/page down keys. but they seem to be reversed. page-up goes a…
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LaTeX font error with TeX Live 2013

I use MacTeX and I recently changed my hard drive and upgraded to TeX Live 2013. I have a style file that I need to use for my thesis. It used to typeset fine, and when I upgraded, it stopped compiling and produces the following error: Hi This is…
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TeXstudio (3.0.0) quit unexpectedly on macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

I updated TeXstudio from old version (2.12.10)to (3.0.0) on MacOS Highsirra. I also updated mactex to 2020. the problem is when I compile the message says "Process started: pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "texstudio_TIryZu".tex" and…
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how to update MacTex

I updated MacTex to the 2019 version But when I run latex --version it says I am using the old 2017 version that was previously installed How do I get it to use the latest install?
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error texlive 2019basic of february 2020

after updating my tex system with the Tex Live utility on osx mojave, characters from textcomp disappeared. I had to trash /usr/local/texlive/2019basic/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty and rename the weirdly named textcomp-2018-08-11.sty that…
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