On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@princeton.edu> wrote: > From: John Kane [jrkrid...@yahoo.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:28 PM > > Glad you got things working. > >>I then put >>export >>PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux:$PATH >>in my .profile and >>restarted the terminal > > For the future and in case you are curious: .profile is executed when you log > in, not on each opening of a terminal. .bashrc is run on each new terminal > instance. This is why a reboot fixed it for you.
Well said. In general, it's s good idea to run $source .profile or $source .bashrc etc., whenever you modify one of those environment-altering files. That way you can test your changes immediately without having to restart the terminal or rebooting the machine. Other things may happen when you do that, and I'd like to keep variables to a minimum when setting things up. After a while it becomes a habit, like running mktexlsr after manually installing a tex package. Cheers, Stefano > > Scott -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
