[Tex/LaTex] mintinline command not compiling with pdflatex

Question

Whenever I try to use the mintinline command in a source file and then compile that file with pdflatex, I get an error. Minimum example to show the error is provided below:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{minted}
\begin{document}
\mintinline{vala}{main}
\end{document}

When I run pdflatex --shell-escape sample.tex (where sample.tex) is the name of the file I have this code in), I get the following output:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014/Arch Linux) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
\write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./sample.tex
LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9k> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/minted/minted.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancyvrb/fancyvrb.sty
Style option: `fancyvrb' v2.7a, with DG/SPQR fixes, and firstline=lastline fix 
<2008/02/07> (tvz)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/color.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/float/float.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ifplatform/ifplatform.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/pdftexcmds.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/catchfile.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/etexcmds.sty)) (./sample.w18)) /usr/bin/pygmentize

(./sample.aux) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
) (./sample.pyg)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \mintinline
               {vala}{main}
? 

Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

The \mintinline command is provided by the development version of minted, not the one in the current TeX distributions. If you want to use it, manually install the development version.

You can instead use pythontex:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{pythontex}
\begin{document}
Abc \pygment{vala}|main| def
\end{document}

This requires running pythontex <filename> after a LaTeX run (when there are new code snippets).