Re: [AUCTeX] TeXLive2011 Biber environment problem

[Haines Brown]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Guilhem Bourrié wrote:

> The fact that biblatex.sty exists in your system does not imply that 
> your program will find it.

Yes. That is why I assumed the problem had rto do with biblatex's 
environment.

> Try to update the list of pathnames that are explored by pdflatex
> and other engines,
> 
> usually it is a file ls --r, updated by texhash or mktexlsr.

I don't know what paths are explored by pdflatex or what "other" 
engines refer to. Perhaps you only meant that runing # texhash should 
take care of paths. But it does not seem to:

  # texhash
  texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R... 
  texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... 
  texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE... 
  texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
  texhash: Done.

Again, 

  $ echo $TEXINPUTS
  /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf:

but when I run latex command on a .tex file containing citations I get:

  ERROR: LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found.

> As for the pathnames, it depends on the OS, bu the tds and tools
> should be similar.

Are you saying that it makes no difference that my path is 
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf even though the biblatex.sty file is 
actually located in 
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/? Excuse my 
ignorance, but if the path is .../2011/texmf/ how can it find a file 
in .../2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/? It seems to me 
biblatex.sty is not in biblatex's environment, but surely I must be 
wrong.

Haines