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I'm having some problems configuring Tex on macbook.

I installed the Mactex from here http://www.tug.org/mactex/faq/index.html

but now when i try to compile a document using texworks, i'm getting a typsetting error:

The program PDFtex was not found ... you need to tell texworks where to find a tex distribution or something like that. I tried to search for the new path, but i did not find anything.

I tried texmaker, it's working without errors but the problem is it's not editing the new generated PDF file after compiling the document

can anyone help please??

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there is no /usr/texbin in the paths pane and when i try to add it, i can't find this path also .. – ifreak Oct 1 '12 at 20:13
when i try: pdflatex file.tex i get : -bash: pdflatex: command not found – ifreak Oct 1 '12 at 20:24
where i should do this exactly ?? – ifreak Oct 1 '12 at 20:28
same error message. command not found – ifreak Oct 1 '12 at 20:30
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What exactly did you download and install? The download page is here, not where you pointed. Did you get MacTeX.pkg from that page, and did the installer finish without errors? – Harald Hanche-Olsen Oct 1 '12 at 20:30
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closed as too localized by diabonas, Tom Bombadil, cgnieder, Martin Schröder, Paulo Cereda Oct 2 '12 at 0:20

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