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    copied!<p>I have a clean CentOS 5.5 machine with tetex installed. Next, I installed PGF/TikZ:</p> <pre><code>wget http://media.texample.net/pgf/builds/pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip unzip pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip \cp -r tex /usr/share/texmf texhash </code></pre> <p>This is my document:</p> <pre><code>\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} test \end{document} </code></pre> <p>I'm trying to compile it and this is what I'm getting:</p> <pre><code>$ latex test.tex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2003/12/01&gt; .. skipped .. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/pgf.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)))) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgffor.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-latex.def) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.code.tex)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeysfiltered.code.tex))) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgffor.code.tex)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/tikz.code.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibraryplothandlers.code.tex ! Undefined control sequence. \pgfsetplottension ...ttension {\pgf@sys@tonumber \pgf@x } l.104 \pgfsetplottension{0.5} ? </code></pre> <p>I failed to find any clues in the net about this problem. On other servers I don't such a problem. Could anyone help please? Thanks!</p> <p>ps. Btw, I tried another build of PGF/TikZ, the older one, no luck :(</p>
 

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