[tex-live] texdoc won't run

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 16:31:12 CEST 2017


On 17 April 2017 at 16:06, Juergen Fenn <jfenn at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello Dick,
>
> thanks for looking into this.
>
> Am 17.04.17 um 20:04 Uhr schrieb Richard Koch:
>
> > On my machine, running MacTeX-2016 updated a few days ago, texdoc works
> > fine,
> > pulling up documentation for footmisc and many other things.
>
> BTW, I know it worked on my machine too. But texdoc does not find any
> documentation now.
>
> I can live with texdoc.net for the time being, but I reported the
> problem in case it should be a bug related to a recent update.


Some installers (macports, anaconda python) fiddle with startup scripts so
you
should also check for a change to your PATH.   The error you cite can occur
if the texdoc script finds a texlua from some other TeX installation.



> > Here
> >
> > /Library/TeX/texbin/texdoc
> >
> > is a symbolic link to
> > ../../texmf-dist/scripts/texdoc/texdoc.tlu
> >
> >
> > Is that true for you?
>
> Yes, it's an alias. And when I drag and drop it from the Finder to
> Terminal I get the same result as before:
>
> Mangold:~ juergenfenn$ /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin/texdoc
> /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin/texdoc:7: module 'texdoc.main'
> not found:
>         no field package.preload['texdoc.main']
>         [kpse lua searcher] file not found: 'texdoc.main'
>         [kpse C searcher] file not found: 'texdoc.main'
>         no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/texdoc.so'
>         no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/loadall.so'
>         no file './texdoc.so'
> Mangold:~ juergenfenn$
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen.
>



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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