texpath needs to be before $PATH in LaTeXTools.sublime-settings on linux?

[mcharleston]

I'm running ST3 on Ubuntu 22.04, texlive 2023.

Summary

I had to my texlive path before $PATH in the LaTeXTools.sublime-settings, else packages were not found.

Issue

I've followed the great diagnostic instructions on https://latextools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/troubleshooting/ and found that launching ST3 from my default login shell (fish) or from bash works fine, but when I launch it from an app launcher (in this case Albert) it cannot find some packages.

My shell path: /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux /home/<myusername>/.local/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /sbin /bin /usr/games /usr/local/games /snap/bin /snap/bin

and when I launch from the shell the os.environ['PATH'] is '/usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux:/home/mac/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/snap/bin'

My LaTeXTools.sublime-settings relevant bit:

"linux" : {
		// Path used when invoking tex & friends; MUST include $PATH
		"texpath" : "$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux",

but LaTeXTools SystemCheck shows it's not looking in the right place.

Here's the System Check for launching from the shell:

Program      Location                                            Status     Version
-------      --------                                            ------     -------
sublime      /usr/bin/subl                                       available  Sublime Text Build 4143
latexmk      /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/latexmk    available  Latexmk, John Collins, 4 Apr. 2023. Version 4.80
pdflatex     /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex   available  pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023)
xelatex      /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/xelatex    available  XeTeX 3.141592653-2.6-0.999995 (TeX Live 2023)
lualatex     /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/lualatex   available  This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.17.0 (TeX Live 2023)
biber        /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/biber      available  biber version: 2.19
bibtex       /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/bibtex     available  BibTeX 0.99d (TeX Live 2023)
bibtex8      /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/bibtex8    available  This is 8-bit Big BibTeX version 0.99d-x4.00 (TeX Live 2023)
kpsewhich    /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich  available  kpathsea version 6.3.5
convert      /usr/bin/convert                                    available  ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagick.org
ghostscript  /usr/bin/gs                                         available  GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0 (2021-09-27)

Packages for equation preview  Status
-----------------------------  ------
standalone                     available
preview                        available
xcolor                         available
amsmath                        available
amssymb                        available
latexsym                       available
mathtools                      available

And here is is having launched from GUI / Albert:

Program      Location            Status     Version
-------      --------            ------     -------
sublime      /usr/bin/subl       available  Sublime Text Build 4143
latexmk      /usr/bin/latexmk    available  Latexmk, John Collins, 20 November 2021. Version 4.76
pdflatex     /usr/bin/pdflatex   available  pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian)
xelatex                          missing    unavailable
lualatex     /usr/bin/lualatex   available  This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.14.0 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian)
biber                            missing    unavailable
bibtex       /usr/bin/bibtex     available  BibTeX 0.99d (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian)
bibtex8      /usr/bin/bibtex8    available  This is 8-bit Big BibTeX version 0.99d
kpsewhich    /usr/bin/kpsewhich  available  kpathsea version 6.3.4/dev
convert      /usr/bin/convert    available  ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagick.org
ghostscript  /usr/bin/gs         available  GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0 (2021-09-27)

Packages for equation preview  Status
-----------------------------  ------
standalone                     missing
preview                        missing
xcolor                         available
amsmath                        available
amssymb                        available
latexsym                       available
mathtools                      available

Solution

However, when I put /usr/local/texlive/... in before the $PATH in LaTeXTools.sublime-settings it works fine:

	"linux" : {
		// Path used when invoking tex & friends; MUST include $PATH
		"texpath" : "/usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH",

Not sure if others have encountered this but I thought you should know that at least for this situation putting the texpath before $PATH in the settings was the fix.