General ⇒ Installing PGF-TIKZ

[jhapk]

Hi,

I am trying to install TIKZ package on my local account. I am on Fedora 10. I downloaded the PGF-2.0.0 from the sourceforge.net website and put the folders in the texmf folder in my home directory. Now, when I include \usepackage{tikz} in any document, I get the following error message:

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! Undefined control sequence.
l.15 \usepgflibrary
                   {plothandlers}

I did a search and found that this maybe due to incompatibility of newer version of pgf with older. When I do a

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$kpsewhich pgf.sty 

It returns me:

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/nfs/kris/usr2/local_net1/latex/pgf/pgf.sty

and for

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$kpsewhich pgflibraryplothandlers.sty 

I get

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/nfs/carv/d1/people/pradeep/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/compatibility/pgflibraryplothandlers.sty

Why is not reading from the new version in my home directory? Is there something else I should know? I don't have root permissions, so how can I get rid of the older pgf.sty? I checked my texmf and the new pgf.sty file does exist at

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~/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.sty

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi jhapk,

check the TeX environment variables, like

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kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

at the command prompt. The value should point to ~/texmf.

Stefan

[jhapk]

Hi Stefan,

I did that and it does point to the texmf folder in my home directory.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps check

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kpsewhich -all pgf.sty

if the location below the home directory could be found even if it's not the first.
Check texmf.cnf for the search paths and their order. Use kpsewhich to locate texmf.cnf, use -all because there may be more than one texmf.cnf.

Stefan

[jhapk]

Hi Stefan,

here are the outputs for the two commands:

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[pradeep@scaramanga ~]$kpsewhich -all pgf.sty
/nfs/kris/usr2/local_net1/latex/pgf/pgf.sty
[pradeep@scaramanga ~]$kpsewhich -all texmf.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

None of them are pointing to the texmf folder in my home directory. I am not sure what the *.cnf file does, so not really sure what it is.

Thanks

[shadgrind]

Did you ever run texhash after installing the new TikZ?

[jhapk]

yes, I did. There are a couple of other packages which are missing in the /usr directory and I installed them in my local texmf and they are working fine. It is only the tikz package that is giving me this problem.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I am not sure what the *.cnf file does, so not really sure what it is.

Open the file and read it, it's a text file, it contains the configuration together with an explanation.

Stefan

[jhapk]

Hi Stefan,

I looked at the texmf.cnf file in the /usr/share/texmf/web2c folder. It looks fine to me. I don't have the permissions to edit it though. Any more clues how can I make pdflatex look at the pgf.sty file in my home directory?

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps post the texmf.cnf file here as attachment to examine it. I guess there are no secrets inside.

Stefan