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I installed TeX Live via Homebrew (4.1.17) on my Mac (macOS Sonoma 14.1): brew install texlive. Now, I'd like to use this TeX Live distribution in IntelliJ IDEA with the plugin TeXiFy IDEA.

When creating a new LaTeX project, I'm asked to select a project SDK. Unfortunately, I don't know where to find the TeX Live distribution.

Homebrew uses the path /opt/homebrew. Therefore, I tried to find the right path to TeX Live there, but I had no success, neither with the directory /opt/homebrew/Cellar/texlive/20230313_2 (which is shown after running brew install texlive) itself nor with any other subdirectory/executable in /opt/homebrew I tried. IntelliJ IDEA always says "Could not find [path I choosed]/bin/*/pdflatex".

Where can I find the TeX Live distribution installed by homebrew?

Thank you for any help!

EDIT: As @DG' said, installing TeX Live on macOS via Homebrew can be done by installing "MacTeX without GUI": brew install mactex-no-gui. MacTeX is then installed at /usr/local/texlive/2023 and TeXiFy finds it. This solves my problem.

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    I don't know what a TeX Live SDK is supposed to be, but (a) the TeXiFy IDEA Wiki says that it finds your distribution automatically after a restart and (b) you can find the actual path with which pdflatex witch returns something like /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatexon a Mac
    – DG'
    Commented Oct 28, 2023 at 21:08
  • @DG' By "TeX Live SDK" I actually mean the TeX Live Distribution (I wrote "TeX Live SDK" because IntelliJ IDEA/TeXiFy asked me to select an SDK). The output of which pdflatex is /opt/homebrew/bin/pdflatex – but when I select this, the above mentioned error occurs. I was wondering what will happen when I skip the step of selecting the TeX Live distribution, so I tried. It works! TeXiFy has found my pdflatex. But unfortunately, I still don't know where I can find the distribution which I need to select when creating a new project.
    – Pascal Zillmann
    Commented Oct 29, 2023 at 18:12
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    Just wondering: why homebrew and not just MacTeX? Most LaTeX awere editors on Mac assume MacTeX (and its location: /Library/TeX/texbin/ as mentioned above). Plus MacTeX is the easiest to install. Plus remember that you are likely to be ,issing a lot of LaTeX stuff after running brew install texlive (at least if it is just like the apt original)
    – daleif
    Commented Oct 30, 2023 at 12:42
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    I think Homebrew simply runs the MacTeX installer, so your main texmf tree will be /usr/local/texlive/2023 and the binary directory (which is a symbolic link) should be /Library/TeX/texbin (although in that case it's odd that which pdflatex returns what it does.)'
    – Alan Munn
    Commented Oct 30, 2023 at 16:26
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    "workarounds" is probably not the best term. :) MacTeX seamlessly installs the correct binary for your hardware, and sets up a very nice set of symbolic links that makes switching distribution years easy, and allows you to have a single path to the binaries. It also is a signed app, which means that you don't have problems with Apple's increasingly draconian security protections.
    – Alan Munn
    Commented Nov 3, 2023 at 21:21

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