Text Formatting ⇒ Error: File `undertilde.sty' not found

[sebastiaopburnay]

Hi!

First of all, thank you for keeping this community forum.

I'm new to LaTex, so I'm quite green, and I'm using it to produce my theses document.

I got a template to produce the document, the template includes lots of '\usepackage' statements, among them, one is: '

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\usepackage{amssymb,undertilde,extarrows,xspace}

'.

The editor I'm using is WinTex and when I press the PDFLaTex button I get a list of errors:

Building project: 55983-SebastiaoBurnay
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55983-SebastiaoBurnay.tex(1): Package caption Warning: Unsupported document class (or package) detected,
55983-SebastiaoBurnay.tex(1): Error: LaTeX Error: File `undertilde.sty' not found.
55983-SebastiaoBurnay.tex(37): Error: Emergency stop.
55983-SebastiaoBurnay.tex(1): Error: ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
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55983-SebastiaoBurnay - 3 error(s), 1 warning(s), 0 overfull box(es), 0 underfull box(es)

I also noticed that by removing the 'undertilde' entry from the 'usepackage' statement it was on, I could successfully generate a pdf file.

Maybe this is a useless package I don't really need, but still, this is more of a lousy mend than a solution.

I'm hoping you can help me on this.

With my best regards,
sebastiaopburnay

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you don't need the package, remove it. Installing it and loading it even if you never use it would not be the best solution, I mean.

Have a look at http://ctan.org/pkg/undertilde to see what the package can do for you. If you are sure that you need it, i.e. you wish to typeset a tilde below math symbols, you can download it from there.

Stefan

[localghost]

The package is just not available on your system. You can install it subsequently by the package manager of your TeX distribution.

[…] I also noticed that by removing the 'undertilde' entry from the 'usepackage' statement it was on, I could successfully generate a pdf file.

Maybe this is a useless package I don't really need, but still, this is more of a lousy mend than a solution. […]

This clearly shows that the package is not needed for this particular document. So you can drop it. Load only packages you need. But that's very difficult when using a template from which you don't know what all the code is doing.

I recommend to do some basic reading [1]. You need to know some basics before starting a bigger project.

[1] View topic: LaTeX Resources for Beginners


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten