[Tex/LaTex] Avoid Option clash for package xcolor

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I've looked at other questions about option clash for package xcolor to no avail. Tried putting xcolor before hyperref and tikz, tried adding options [usenames, dvispsnames] to documentclass, and I still get the error. It also appears to always find the error on line 14, regardless of what is on line 14.

How do I fix this?

Here's a MWE:

\documentclass[letterpaper, usenames, dvipsnames]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[letterpaper, top=1.125in, bottom=1.125in, left=0.75in, right=0.75in, footskip=0.00in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{pxfonts}
\usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[toc, page]{appendix}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{hyperref}
% Make the links blue, to follow the Web convention. Using xcolor syntax, internal links will be
% 70 % blue, the remainder black, and URLs 80 % blue (brighter)
\hypersetup{colorlinks, linkcolor={blue!70!black}, citecolor={blue!50!black}, urlcolor={blue!80!black}}


\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,.pdf,.jpg,.mps}


% Setup Draft watermark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newsavebox\mybox
\savebox\mybox{\tikz[color=red,opacity=0.3]\node{DRAFT};}
\newwatermark*[allpages, angle=45, scale=6, xpos=-20, ypos=15]{\usebox\mybox}


\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}

Best Answer

Replace

\usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{xcolor}

with

\PassOptionsToPackage{usenames,dvipsnames}{xcolor}

and then let tikz load the package.

Or add whichever options tikz wants to the options you load xcolor with. For example,

\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,rgb]{xcolor}

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[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor

The beamer class loads xcolor per default. You can issue the option via a beamer-option

\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={usenames}]{beamer}

olivegreen on the other hand needs the dvipsnames option and is called OliveGreen:

\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{url}

\author{The author}
\title{Package conflicts}
\date{October 3rd, 2012}

\begin{document}

This is supposed to be \textcolor{OliveGreen}{olivegreen}
\end{document}

You could do

\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={usenames,dvipsnames}]{beamer}

but don't (usenames is obsolete).
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[Tex/LaTex] Option clash for package xcolor

Once you get the error message:

! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.17

type "h" (without the quotation marks, for help) in the output console and you get

? h
The package xcolor has already been loaded with options:
  []
There has now been an attempt to load it with options
  [table]
Adding the global options:
  ,table
to your \documentclass declaration may fix this.

So, you get an explanation of the problem and a possible solution. Doing as advised you prevent the clash:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,article,table]{memoir}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}
    \graphicspath{{Figures/}}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{modroman}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

Now, the problem was that another package (pgfplots, in this case) had already loaded the xcolor package without options, so loading it after pgfplots with the table option produces the clash. One way to prevent the problem was already presented (using table as class option); another solution is to load xcolor with the table option before pgfplots:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,article]{memoir}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}
    \graphicspath{{Figures/}}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{modroman}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

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