[Tex/LaTex] Fontawesome 5 error

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I am using the latest fontawesome package for latex version 5.9.0 and it seems that not all icons are usable. In thw following MWE \faIcon{phone-alt} says it is not found.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontawesome5}

\begin{document}
\faIcon{phone}
\faIcon{phone-alt}
\end{document}

I am getting the following error

fontawesome5 error: "icon-not-found" The requested icon phone-alt was not found. For immediate help type H <return>.

EDIT
This is the last part of my log file.

 *File List*
 article.cls    2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontawesome5.sty    2019/03/20 v5.8.0 Font Awesome 5
   expl3.sty    2018-06-14 L3 programming layer (loader) 
expl3-code.tex    2018-06-14 L3 programming layer 
l3xdvipdfmx.def    
l3keys2e.sty    2018-05-12 LaTeX2e option processing using LaTeX3 keys
  xparse.sty    2018-05-12 L3 Experimental document command parser
fontawesome5-utex-helper.sty    2019/03/20 v5.8.0 uTeX helper for fontawesome5
tufontawesomefree.fd
tufontawesomebrands.fd
 ***********

Indeed I was not using version 5.9.0 as I thought but 5.8.0. I updated the package and everything works.

Best Answer

Well, it seems you do not use version 5.9 of fontawesome5 ...

I could reproduce your error with using the older version 5.8. After updating my MiKTeX I got the new version 5.9: fontawesome5.sty 2019/06/07 v5.9.0 Font Awesome 5.

Please run the following mwe (I added command \listfiles to get a list of all used packages and version numbers) 

\listfiles
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontawesome5}

\begin{document}
\faIcon{phone} and 
\faPhone or 
\faPhone* or 
\faIcon{phone-alt}
\end{document}

and got the following list of used packages (check your log file for it. You should find the list at the end of the file. You need this command only for this testing purpose!):

*File List*
 article.cls    2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2018/09/03 v1.4i Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontawesome5.sty    2019/06/07 v5.9.0 Font Awesome 5
   expl3.sty    2019-05-28 L3 programming layer (loader) 
expl3-code.tex    2019-05-28 L3 programming layer 
l3pdfmode.def    2019-04-06 v L3 Experimental driver: PDF mode
l3keys2e.sty    2019-05-28 LaTeX2e option processing using LaTeX3 keys
  xparse.sty    2019-05-28 L3 Experimental document command parser
fontawesome5-generic-helper.sty    2019/06/07 v5.9.0 non-uTeX helper for fontawesome5
fontawesome5-mapping.def
ufontawesomefree0.fd
ufontawesomefree3.fd
 ***********

compiling without error and the following pdf:

resulting pdf

Please copy my code, run it on your computer and check the log file for the used version of fontawesome5. If it really lists version 5.9 then please add the complete log file for my code to your question ...

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