{"id":443,"date":"2010-02-12T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-02-12T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:04:28","slug":"solving-the-tex-error-i-cant-find-file-pgflibrarytikzpositioning-code-tex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/2010\/02\/12\/solving-the-tex-error-i-cant-find-file-pgflibrarytikzpositioning-code-tex","title":{"rendered":"Solving the *tex error &#8220;I can&#8217;t find file `pgflibrarytikzpositioning.code.tex&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically it means your PGF installation is waaay old. Like from 2007 if you run Ubuntu 8.04 as I happen to. If you want to find out what your version is compile this short tex file:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\\listfiles \r\n\\documentclass[]{article} \r\n\\usepackage{tikz} \r\n%\\usetikzlibrary{positioning} \r\n\\begin{document} \r\na \r\n\\end{document}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(found in <a href=\"http:\/\/old.nabble.com\/I-can't-find-file-`pgflibrarytikzpositioning.code.tex'-td20634766.html\">http:\/\/old.nabble.com\/I-can&#8217;t-find-file-`pgflibrarytikzpositioning.code.tex&#8217;-td20634766.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>After that grab a fresh copy from <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pgf\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pgf\/<\/a>. As root remove (or back up somewhere else) <strong>\/usr\/share\/texmf\/tex\/context\/pgf<\/strong> , <strong>\/usr\/share\/texmf\/tex\/generic\/pgf<\/strong> , <strong>\/usr\/share\/texmf\/tex\/latex\/pgf<\/strong> and <strong>\/usr\/share\/texmf\/tex\/plain\/pgf<\/strong>. Extract the new pgf and copy the corresponding folders to the same places, run (as root) <strong>mktexlsr<\/strong> and you are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically it means your PGF installation is waaay old. Like from 2007 if you run Ubuntu 8.04 as I happen to. If you want to find out what your version is compile this short tex file: \\listfiles \\documentclass[]{article} \\usepackage{tikz} %\\usetikzlibrary{positioning} \\begin{document} a \\end{document} (found in http:\/\/old.nabble.com\/I-can&#8217;t-find-file-`pgflibrarytikzpositioning.code.tex&#8217;-td20634766.html) After that grab a fresh copy from http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pgf\/. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,22],"tags":[28,26],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latex-software","category-software-libre","tag-it-works-in-debian","tag-latex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmnbC-79","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}