I have installed texlive 2016 in my rhel 5.3
This is having only basic packages
Tikz is not installed
the file contains only usepackage tikz and document class delaration and displaying one circle thats all.
later i downloaded pgf/tikz package and copied all the files to
~/share/~
to corresponding folders
Then i have done texhash
it has compiled but and tikz is also displayed in log
but the error is
undefined control sequnce
\pgfutil@ IF file exists .....
\usepgflibrary{plothandlers}
TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ Unable to Compile tikz package
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Johannes_B
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Unable to Compile tikz package
Use the TeX Live manager or your distributions package manager to download extra packages.
The smart way: Calm down and take a deep breath, read posts and provided links attentively, try to understand and ask if necessary.
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Unable to Compile tikz package
Better do a full install (such as by
Besides that, you could download and extract the TDS file to your
Stefan
sudo yum install texlive-scheme-full) if you have 3GB available on your hard disk. This saves headaches such as now when packages are missing. You would also have consistent package versions. (or search via sudo yum search pgf, sudo yum search tikz)Besides that, you could download and extract the TDS file to your
~/texmf folder (the one you get by kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME).Stefan
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