[Tex/LaTex] How to change Appendix chapter name

appendices

I have a long appendix which includes a lot of equations and figures.
My document class is report.
In order to have a separate appendix section, I used:

\appendix
\chapter{The first appendix}

The outcome shows like this

Chapter A

The first appendix

How can I change it to:

Appendix A

The first appendix

I also tried

\chapter*{Appendix: The First Appendix}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix: The First Appendix}

But in this way, my equation number does not start with A.1. This will not work for me.

Best Answer

As xport noted, you probably have an old (very old) version of TeX. Newer version don't have this problem. The best solution is to update; you probably have a lot of other since-corrected misfeatures in addition to this one. If you can't update, try the following:

\appendix
\renewcommand\chaptername{Appendix}
\chapter{The first appendix}
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