[Tex/LaTex] Module ‘pdftexcmds’ not found after update

luatextikz-pgf

Yesterday I updated my distribution (tlmgr update --all) and now I cannot use TikZ with lualatex anymore.

Minimal working example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
a
\end{document}

Compilation output:

> lualatex a
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019)                                                                                                                                                                       
 restricted system commands enabled.                                                                                                                                                                                 
(./a.tex                                                                                                                                                                                                             
LaTeX2e <2019-10-01> patch level 3                                                                                                                                                                                   

luaotfload | main : initialization completed in 0.098 seconds                                                                                                                                                        
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls                                                                                                                                                             
Document Class: article 2019/10/25 v1.4k Standard LaTeX document class                                                                                                                                               
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))                                                                                                                                                            
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.sty                                                                                                                                                   
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/basiclayer/pgf.sty                                                                                                                                                       
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.sty            

...

(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/tikz.code.tex
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibraryplothandlers.
code.tex)
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmodulematrix.code.tex)

(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikz
librarytopaths.code.tex)))
No file a.aux.
ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros
(/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/supp-pdf.mkii
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
) (/opt/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/epstopdf-pkg/epstopdf-base.sty[\direc
tlua]:1: module 'pdftexcmds' not found:
        no field package.preload['pdftexcmds']
        [kpse lua searcher] file not found: 'pdftexcmds'
        [kpse C searcher] file not found: 'pdftexcmds'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        [\directlua]:1: in main chunk.
l.165       \directlua{require("pdftexcmds")}

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It seems that a Lua package is missing.

Is this a bug?
Am I missing a package?

Best Answer

There is currently ongoing work in making the massive oberdiek bundle, which contains many useful and widely-used packages, more maintainable. In particular the plan is to split off packages from the main bundle, so they can be updated separately without updating the whole collection. While this is happening you will gradually see packages disappear from https://github.com/ho-tex/oberdiek and reappear as stand-alone repositories in https://github.com/ho-tex.

A few days ago the package pdftexcmds was split from the oberdiek bundle, so it is now available as a stand-alone package in TeX live and MikTeX.

If you get any errors about missing pdftexcmds you probably got a new version of the oberdiek bundle that doesn't include pdftexcmds any more.

If you are a TeX live user, just run

tlmgr install pdftexcmds

This will install the new pdftexcmds stand-alone package.

If you are a MikTeX user you need to install pdftexcmds via the MikTeX Console. To avoid issues with MikTeX's on-the-fly installation feature you should make sure to run and update in User and Admin mode afterwards and should then update the package database (MikTeX Console > Tasks > Update package database) again once in Admin and once in User mode.

These package splits only affect users who are not using a complete TeX installation, but installed only selected packages. With TeX live it is usually recommended to get a complete installation with all packages that is what many people use and they will not notice any changes since the new package will get installed automatically.

As Ulrike mentioned in the comments, more packages are going to be split off in the coming weeks. Indeed just tonight kvoptions was split off and is now a stand-alone package (see for example here), so you may need to install kvoptions as well after tonight.

Note that any updates to the oberdiek package are announced in on the ctan-ann mailing list, with the message linked from the ctan oberdiek page. The last announcement is archived here

https://ctan.org/ctan-ann/id/mailman.1835.1575146287.2586.ctan-ann@ctan.org

and ends with a list of packages that may need to be installed:

If you install a minimal tex installation that previously installed oberdiek then to install the equivalent set of package's you may now need to install

attachfile2 epstopdf-pkg grffile hobsub iftex inputenx kvoptions luacolor magicnum makerobust oberdiek pdfcolmk pdftexcmds stringenc transparent zref

This list will be updated at each announcement if more packages are split off.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Did I install a package successfully

Very probably you have an outdated version of TikZ/PGF installed. 2008 is already rather old and it might interfere with anything previously installed on your system. Indeed TikZ/PGF v2.00 (as shipped with TeX Live 2009 with Ubuntu 10.10) doesn't have the intersection library.

In the case of the code in your previous question, you could just calculate the points by hand (as in necessary for the labels anyway), e.g.

\node (a) at (2, 2.5) {};

Generally I recommend to not use the Ubuntu packages as they are often outdated and contain some bugs. Installing TeX Live manually is quite easy (if you want you can ask a separate question about that).

[Tex/LaTex] Tikz: adjusting pin anchor

When TikZ places a label (or a pin) it calculates a point that is label distance (or pin distance) away from a point on the anchor-border of its parent node.

This point on the anchor-border is directly dependent on the angle/direction before the : (or the default label position/pin position). In the same direction the * distance is added.

This is the new point where the label/pin is placed. (In other words: all the options like direction/angle and distance have an influence on the newly placed node, not the pin edge.)

The new node is placed at a specific anchor which is calculated internally by TikZ (and snaps to the eight main compass directions and in one special case to the .center). This is (one of) the cause for the problems in other questions:

The pin edge (with all its options and defaults and styles) is done in an append after command (the label/pin placement itself is a append after command which \tikzlastnode has been saved in \tikz@save@last@node so that the inner append after command can actually access both nodes).

The default pin edge is a line to path (= (<parent node>) -- (<pin node>)). This is drawn with no regard to any anchors calculated or placed at. The -- line is drawn directly between the center of nodes stopping at the nodes’ borders.

The label and pin keys aren't really made for precise placement. (Don’t ask my why.)

However, with a few keys we could get what you want (or at least I assume this is what you want):

The label anchor key is taken from my other answer to the first linked question above.
The pin anchor is defined similar.
The pin edge pin anchor key can be used to change the anchor at which the pin edge should end (at the pin).
The pin edge parent anchor key can be used to change the anchor at which the pin edge should start (at the parent node).

The latter keys can also be given an empty value which resets the anchor to “automatically” (as TikZ sees fit).

I have added some auxiliary lines to the drawings that should help understand what I have said before. The arc labelled “60°” shows where the angle 60 is used and the double-arrowed line angled at 60° shows where the pin distance (3ex per default) is measured. The bottom-left start of this line points to (<parent node>.60) and the top-right end of this line points to the point that pin distance away from the start and where the pin will be placed with its (automatically determined or via pin anchor set) anchor.

The second double-arrowed line shows how TikZ connects the the nodes (via the line to edge). In the first two cases (without any pin edge * anchor set) it connects the nodes on a straight line between their centers. In the third case it uses the specified south west anchor to draw the line to. In the fourth, the additional north anchor to start the line from.

Code

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\ifStrInTF[2]{%
  \edef\tikz@temp{{#1}{#2}}%
  \expandafter\pgfutil@in@\tikz@temp
  \ifpgfutil@in@\expandafter\pgfutil@firstoftwo\else\expandafter\pgfutil@secondoftwo\fi}
\newcommand*\ifStrEmptyTF[1]{%
  \def\tikz@temp{#1}\ifx\tikz@temp\pgfutil@empty
    \expandafter\pgfutil@firstoftwo\else\expandafter\pgfutil@secondoftwo\fi}

\def\tikz@swapanchor#1.#2\tikz@stop#3#4{#1#4#3}
\newcommand*\tikzAddAnchor[2]{%
  \ifStrInTF{.}{#1}{%
    \ifStrEmptyTF{#2}
      {\edef#1{\expandafter\tikz@swapanchor#1\tikz@stop{}{}}}
      {\edef#1{\expandafter\tikz@swapanchor#1\tikz@stop{#2}{.}}}%
  }{%
    \ifStrEmptyTF{#2}{}% no true
      {\edef#1{#1.#2}}%
  }}
\tikzset{
  pin anchor/.style={tikz@pin@post/.append style={anchor=#1}},
  label anchor/.style={tikz@label@post/.append style={anchor=#1}},
  pin edge pin anchor/.style={
    append after command={\pgfextra\tikzAddAnchor{\tikzlastnode}{#1}\endpgfextra}%
  },
  pin edge parent anchor/.style={
    append after command={\pgfextra\tikzAddAnchor{\tikz@save@last@node}{#1}\endpgfextra}%
  }
}
\makeatother
\tikzset{c/.style={circle, minimum size=1cm, draw, densely dotted}}
\begin{document} 
\begin{tikzpicture}[every pin/.append style=draw, every pin edge/.style={thick}]
  \node [c] [pin=60:test] at (0,0) {};

  \node[c] [pin={[pin anchor=west]60:test}] at (2,0) {};

  \node[c] [pin={[pin anchor=south,
                  pin edge pin anchor=south west]60:test}] at (4,0) {}; 

  \node[c] [pin={[pin anchor=south,
                  pin edge pin anchor=south west,
                  pin edge parent anchor=north]60:test}] at (6,0) {}; 

\end{tikzpicture} 
\end{document}

Output

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