LaTeX forum ⇒ Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ PSTricks | Very basic Error Topic is solved

[psionman]

I have installed pstricks on Ubuntu with TeX Live.

When I try to compile this simple document.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
 
\begin{document}
\psdots(1,1)
\end{document}

I get the error

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! Undefined control sequence.
l.5     \psdots
                (1,1)

Can someone suggest a solution?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This document works for me, with TeX Live 2011. Perhaps you need an update of PSTricks, you could also consider to install TeX Live 2012 from tug.org instead of the older version from the Ubuntu repositories.

Stefan

[psionman]

Thanks Stefan. I can't understand it because I have TeX Live 2012 and I downloaded pstricks this morning

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could ass \listfiles to your preamble, and post the .log file here, as attachment to a post. Perhaps we can see the cause in that file.

Stefan

[psionman]

Thanks Stefan

I have attached the log file as you requested

[localghost]

The file list in your log file indicates that the system still uses the old files from TeX Live 2009 (shipped with Ubuntu).

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 *File List*
  article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
   size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
pstricks.sty    2008/11/26 v0.40 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
pstricks.tex    2009/05/19 v1.29 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)
    color.sty    2005/11/14 v1.0j Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)
    color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
   pdftex.def    2009/08/25 v0.04m Graphics/color for pdfTeX
supp-pdf.mkii
  ***********

However you installed TeX Live 2012 on your operating system, it is not recognized.


Thorsten

[psionman]

Thanks Thorsten. I realize that now. I mistakenly installed PSTricks with synaptic and that downloaded some TeX Live 2009 files. I've now sorted that but will have to have another try with PSTricks.