[Tex/LaTex] Graphics, xcolor, graphicx cannot find pdftex.def / xetex.def

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I have a clean install of texlive. While trying to compile any document which uses either the graphics, graphix, or the xcolor packages, I get errors that the compiler can't find the corresponding .def file.

pdftex.def – if I am using pdflatex
xetex.def – if I'm using xelatex

I have downloaded the graphics-def package from CTAN, and copied the .def files to /texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics, but I had no luck. Maybe I don't know where the files are supposed to go.

The only thing that worked was putting the .def files in the same directory as my .tex program.

This is surely a path error. Where do I put the def files so that the packages can find them?
EDIT: I'm using Windows and TeXStudio. (Although I'm getting the same errors when I compile via command line)

Best Answer

Here is just for the records.

Thanks @JosephWright for your help! It was painful.

Remember to download TeXLive from a verified site: http://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html

Here's the ISO one: https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-iso.html

Hope that helps!!!

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