[tex-live] pdfeTex vs. pdfLaTeX.

[Cedric Ginestet]

Dear TeX experts,

I have several packages (tikz, trackchanges, caption, multicol, 
multirow) that use up some counters. I compile all my documents with 
pdflatex. How can I use pdfetex instead of pdflatex to compile them?

I have Ubuntu's Koala, AucTex on Emacs. So far, if I simply try to use 
pdfetex from the command line, I get an error, which looks like if I 
were using bare TeX:
##########################
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./method.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.12 \documentclass
                    [10pt,oneside,pdftex,dvipsnames,a4paper]{article}
?
##########################

I read somewhere that using eTeX should solve my problem of counters! 
What am I doing wrong?

Any help would be very much appreciated,

-- 
Cedric Ginestet
Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences (L3.04)
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
Department of Neuroimaging
Institute of Psychiatry, Box P089
King's College London
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London
SE5 8AF
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Email: cedric.ginestet at kcl.ac.uk
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