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Good afternoon everyone, I am currently resetting my mac and reinstalling everything in a clean way. I would love to have guidance here if possible. I currently installed TexLive and TextDist but now i am guiding myself with this : https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Install

If anyone could explain to me this section :

Setting PATH environment variable

After installing TeX Live, you must add the directory of TeX Live binaries to your PATH environment variable except on Windows. See the official document. LaTeX Workshop never touches the variable. If VS Code cannot find executables of TeX, it means that the setting of your system is broken. For the ways of setting environment variables on Windows, see link or link. On macOS and Linux, see the documentation by the rbenv dev team. Very detailed information is also available on stackoverflow for macOS.

Notice that you have to restart VS Code and the operating system after changing the variable.

If you can not fix the setting of your system, you can also override PATH with the env property of LaTeX tools in LaTeX recipes.

Notice that, to set the PATH environment variable for VS Code Remote Development, you usually have to edit .bash_profile or .profile instead of .bashrc. See the document for WSL and an issue for Remote SSH.

If you want to know about environment variable itself, please read Wikipedia and stackexchange.

I do not really understand how it is important and what to do if anyone could help here !

Ravinala
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    If you're willing to use a different editor/front-end, then the simplest way is to install MacTeX, which includes TeXLive. When the installation is complete, everything "just works" -- no environment variables or path values to set manually. MacTeX includes the very configurable TeXShop editor/front-end (but you may want to just leave it with the default settings until such time as you have need to change any of those). – murray Jul 18 '23 at 15:44
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    I second @murray's suggestion to go with MacTeX. MacTeX is TeXLive, with a couple of nice utilities that make installing and maintaining the TeX distribution a breeze under MacOS. – Mico Jul 18 '23 at 15:59
  • The wiki page you cite links to https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html, which has a section "Post-install: setting PATH". You will basically have to add the TeX Live installation path into your .bashrc or .profile accordingly with the correct format. – epR8GaYuh Jul 18 '23 at 18:08

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