I have recently joined the mac club and I am having trouble using pdflatex. I have installed MacTex which should have everything included but when trying to run typeset I receive the error
'/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not exist. TeXShop is a front end for TeX, but you also need a TeX distribution. Perhaps such a distribution was not installed or was removed during a system upgrade. If so, go to http://www.tug.org/mactex/ and follow the instructions to (re)install MacTeX. A less likely possibility is that a tool path is incorrectly configured in TeXShop preferences. This can happen if you are using the macports or fink distributions.'
I have searched for pdflatex and could not find it anywhere...can anyone help me? I have read other forums which say reinstalling MacTex doesn't work and I also did this and it made no difference.
Extra info:
OS 10.10.1 Yosemite I have reasonable experience using linux / terminal
ls -l /usr
gives melrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 63 6 Jun 2014 texbin -> /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin