Re: [Fink-users] Status of LaTeX?

[Kevin H. <kho...@ro...>]

On 27 Mar 2009, at 12:00, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Friday, March 27, 2009, at 10:35AM, "Alexander Hansen" <ale...@gm... 
> > wrote:
>> Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> I tried using the developers version of gnuplot to produce a TikZ
>>> picture for latex.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I encountered the error below.
>>>
>>> 	Undefined control sequence
>>> 	\usetikzlibrary {arrows,patterns,plotmarks}
>>>
>>> I have tetex installed via fink, and assume that its tikz.sty is out
>>> of date.
>>>
>>> Can someone confirm?
>>>
>>> If 'yes', what are my options?
>>>
>>> If 'no', any advice?
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>> Rather than _assuming_ anything, you can check if tikz.sty even  
>> exists
>> on your machine via:
>>
>> dpkg -S tikz.sty
>>
>> -or-
>>
>> dlocate tikz.sty
>>
>> if you have the dlocate package installed (for a faster search).   
>> Doing
>> that, you'll find that there is no such style file in Fink's tetex.
>>
>> The best advice I have for you right now is to install a more  
>> modern TeX
>> distro.   I personally use MacTeX (TeXLive), which I did a custom
>> install of to avoid having it install Ghostscript and ImageMagick  
>> stuff
>> in /usr/local and thereby confuse my Fink builds.
>>
>
> I did verify that tikz.sty exists on my system (I should have  
> mentioned that) ... and it appears to have been installed via Fink.

I've had more than one occasion where tetex inexplicably was not aware  
of some packages.  If you haven't done so already, try a "sudo texhash".


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Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada