Issue installing BasicTeX with Cask under OS X I followed the instructions (that I could understand) to install BasicTeX from Cask and this was the output I got:

basictex staged at '/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/basictex/latest' (107M)


I see this:

○ → ls -l /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/basictex/latest/
total 219936
-rw-r--r--  1 sunitjoshi  admin  112605547 Jan 13 07:28 BasicTeX.pkg


And this under ~/Applications; i.e. no BasicText.app

○ → ls ~/Applications/
Chrome Apps.localized emacs                 test.js


Am I missing something here?
TLDR; Add /usr/local/texlive/2015basic/bin/universal-darwin to your PATH.

There is no BasicTeX.app. BasicTex is now installed at /usr/local/texlive/2015basic, wether you use Brew Cask or not (you can also find something files at /Library/Tex, but that's just a bunch of symlinks pointing to the actual installation directory). Just add the above path to your PATH and you should be fine.

Further reference:


BasicTeX installation guide
(non-Brew). aaa
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/163849/mavericks-upgrade-screwed-up-my-pdflatex-command-not-found
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22081991/rmarkdown-pandoc-pdflatex-not-found