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I’m working on a new computer (MacBook Pro) and I copied my old .emacs file to the new computer. It all looked fine, but export to Latex C-c C-e lo gives the error below: (it works fine on the old computer)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "File \"/Users/a/nano/exported-org-files/2023-08-27....")
  signal(error ("File \"/Users/a/nano/exported-org-files/2023-08-27...."))
  error("File \"/Users/a/nano/exported-org-files/2023-08-27....")
  org-compile-file("exported-org-files/2023-08-27.tex" ("%L -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %..." "%L -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %..." "%L -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %...") "pdf" "See \"*Org PDF LaTeX Output*\" for details" #<buffer *Org PDF LaTeX Output*> ((66 . "bibtex") (76 . "pdflatex")))
  org-latex-compile("exported-org-files/2023-08-27.tex")
  #f(compiled-function (file) #<bytecode 0x521ad801>)("exported-org-files/2023-08-27.tex")
  org-export-to-file(latex "exported-org-files/2023-08-27.tex" nil nil nil nil nil #f(compiled-function (file) #<bytecode 0x521ad801>))
  org-latex-export-to-pdf(nil nil nil nil)
  (org-open-file (org-latex-export-to-pdf nil s v b))
  (if a (org-latex-export-to-pdf t s v b) (org-open-file (org-latex-export-to-pdf nil s v b)))
  (lambda (a s v b) (if a (org-latex-export-to-pdf t s v b) (org-open-file (org-latex-export-to-pdf nil s v b))))(nil nil nil nil)
  org-export-dispatch(nil)
  funcall-interactively(org-export-dispatch nil)
  call-interactively(org-export-dispatch nil nil)
  command-execute(org-export-dispatch)

I thought the error was related to this post, but it didn’t help.

I see that these lines are included in my .emacs file.

(getenv "PATH")
 (setenv "PATH"
(concat
 "/Users/a/bin" ":"

(getenv "PATH")))

How can I fix this? I use publish and export a lot.

Now, I tried export to PDF and I got this error zsh:1: command not found: pdflatex

zeynel
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    Forgive me if this is too obvious but are you sure that TeX is installed on this computer? – Fran Burstall Aug 30 '23 at 16:24
  • @FranBurstall Thanks. I totally forgot that I needed to install TeX. So, Installed MikTex. But it still didn't compile. I wasn't sure if it was a different error, so pasted the new error in the question. – zeynel Aug 30 '23 at 17:48
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    What happens if you open a terminal window and type the command `pdflatex --help`? Also, isn't MikTeX for Windows? Is that what you need to run on a MacBook? Maybe `texlive` would work on MacOS? But maybe you should add to your question the OS/version you are running. – NickD Aug 30 '23 at 19:13
  • @NickD installed `texlive` and now I get the help text when I do `pdflatex --help`. (I didn't get it before.) But I could not uninstall MikTex. Export still does not work. – zeynel Aug 30 '23 at 20:41
  • @NickD I started with `emacs -q` and export to latex worked fine! What does this mean? – zeynel Aug 30 '23 at 20:46
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    That means there is a problem in your init file. Bisect it to find out what the problem is - see https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28429/how-do-i-troubleshoot-emacs-problems – NickD Aug 30 '23 at 20:52
  • @NickD Thanks. I commented out small parts of my `.emacs` file and it always worked on the "test emacs". Finally, this is what's happenning: If I start emacs from the terminal with `emacs` (without `-q`) export to Latex works fine. But if I start emacs from the Launchpad, export does not work and I get the error. Why is this happening? – zeynel Aug 31 '23 at 08:19

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