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I installed TexMaker latest (4.02 I think) on my MacBook, and got following message when trying to build a .tex file:
Could not start the command. "pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
I have no idea what happened, and I also did not find much answer I need on internet. What is the problem? Could anyone help with that? Thanks a lot.
TexMaker is an editor. You need a LaTeX distribution to compile the source files and produce the corresponding PDFs in your computer.
pdflatex) will be in /Library/TeX/texbin or /usr/texbinYou may check more information at: How to configure Texmaker to work on Mac with MacTeX? and Texmaker on MacOS Sierra
LaTeXinstallation available (just the editor). One of such installations is TeXLive. If you do have it installed and from a terminal you can typepdflatexwithout getting a "not found" error, I recommend you clarify this in your question./Library/TeX/texbinnot/usr/local/texbin.