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I cannot use latex, bibtex, pdftex commands on Terminal although I have already installed LaTeX on my computer. What about that?

I have a MacOX SnowLeopard computer. I have installed LaTeX downloading directly of Latex website.

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I assume the download came with some editor like TeXworks. Have you tried compiling from the editor instead of the terminal? – Werner May 26 '12 at 4:56
Yes i tried it. But, i need compiling on terminal, to include my bibliography with the bibtex command... – Cristian Velandia May 26 '12 at 5:06
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You do not have to use the Terminal to run BibTeX: all good TeX editors will do this for you. However, you do need it installed. When you say 'downloading directly of Latex website' what exactly do you mean? For example, the standard TeX system for the Mac is MacTeX: tug.org/mactex. Did you install this? – Joseph Wright♦ May 26 '12 at 6:42
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During installation, MacTeX ensures that the PATH variable is updated to include /usr/texbin/. Maybe you didn't install MacTeX, but the standard TeX Live. – egreg May 26 '12 at 8:57
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What do you mean with "cannot use" - does the computer explode or do you get an error message? Please explain. – Martin Schröder May 27 '12 at 13:00
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closed as too localized by egreg, Joseph Wright♦ Jul 8 '12 at 8:35

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