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[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to install texmacs via Fink.
>
> Installation without problems, texmacs starts. but when I load a help 
> text I get this error
>
>  /sw/bin/texmacs &
> [1] 4575
> Jan-Ulrich-Haseckes-Computer:/sw/etc juh$ TeXmacs] With linked TrueType 
> support
> sh: line 1: kpsewhich: command not found
> locate: no database file /var/db/locate.database.

There are two problems here: First, the kpsewhich command is not on your 
PATH. If it exists at all, you need to make sure that the path to its 
directory is in your PATH variable. So if you have kpsewhich from a tex 
installation via i-installer, you need to make sure that both the Fink 
paths /sw/bin:/sw/sbin and the GW path, something like 
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current are in 
your PATH variable. If you have a standard setup and start texmacs from 
a Terminal.app command line, this should be the case by default.
If kpsewhich does not exist, your tetex installation is not complete, 
you might need to reinstall it with the "expert" option or something 
like this activated.

The second problem is that texmacs locates some essential system 
resources via the locate command (I still find this slightly scandalous, 
but this has been discussed before), so your locate.database has to be 
up-to-date for texmacs to run correctly. You need to run

 sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

and wait until it finishes before retrying texmacs.

--
Martin