Skim command not found

[L3munoz]

Hi everybody,

I installed Skim to read pdf files in Mac, but if i write in the shell which skim or whereis skim there is nothing...then i guess there is no command called skim.

My point is to create it, but i dont know how, can anyone help on this'??how can i create a command??

Then I'm using Kile and it gives me the following error

/bin/bash skim command not found

I guess if i define the command this error wont appear, am i right??

any advice is welcome for this mac newbie...

regards,

Munoz.

 

[robbieduncan]

Where did you install skim to? You need to add that to your PATH (which you can do in your bashrc file).

 

[L3munoz]

skim is installed in Applications, but what and how should i edit the .bashrc file. I mean, how to find it and what to write inside??

sorry for such a stupid questions...

 

[robbieduncan]

If it's installed in applications then is it a GUI app? If so adding it to your path doesn't really make sense: it's not a Unix command.

 

[LPZ]

Hi everybody,

I installed Skim to read pdf files in Mac, but if i write in the shell which skim or whereis skim there is nothing...then i guess there is no command called skim.

My point is to create it, but i dont know how, can anyone help on this'??how can i create a command??

Then I'm using Kile and it gives me the following error

/bin/bash skim command not found

I guess if i define the command this error wont appear, am i right??

any advice is welcome for this mac newbie...

regards,

Munoz.

You need to install a unix pdf viewer. Both evince and xpdf are available from macports. From where did you get kile? You might be able to get okular, evince or xpdf from there.

 

[L3munoz]

I installed kile via macports, yes...and i wanted to use skim which is the pdf viewer i have in mac. the way i solved was just to take the path as you said and copy it in the preferences command blank in kile. in this way i guess kile knew how to call skim.

although it is a GUI app, it can also be called via shell, no?? In fact, i wrote

/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim and i opened the software. But i guess there is also a way to run Skim in the shell without writing everytime the whole path...how should i define the command to do it?? I mean, something called like 'skim' which everytime you write in the shell Skim is opened (like when u write xfig or kile...)

 

[robbieduncan]

although it is a GUI app, it can also be called via shell, no?? In fact, i wrote

Yes, but the normal way to open a file in a GUI app on OSX is to use the open command.

open -a Skim mypdf.pdf

 

[L3munoz]

Thanks a lot!!