[tex-live] texlive and powerdot

[bob]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 19:29 +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Robert Jerrard <rjerrard at math.concordia.ab.ca>:
> 
> | \documentclass[]{powerdot}
> | 
> | ERROR: Undefined control sequence.
> | 
> | <recently read> \pddefinepalettes 
> |                                   
> | l.31 \pddefinepalettes
> 
> Funny, \pddefinepalettes is certainly defined in powerdot.cls.
> 
> | Any information as to a fix would be appreciated. Thanks, Bob
> 
> I'm sure it would be.  However, if you want answers I think you need
> to look at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=askquestion
> and pay particular attention to the last two bullet points.
> 
> - Harald

Thanks Harald, I got a solution from the powerdot mailing list. It turns
out that the powerdot.cls and powerdot-*.sty files in the Ubuntu fiesty
package of texlive is too old. Downloading newer files from ctan and
doing an sudo mktexlsr fixed the problem.

Regards, Bob
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