I had installed MiKTeX 2.7 and TeXnicCenter 1 Stable RC1. I had made my Ph.D. thesis files in that but due to an accident my hard drive is crashed and I have to make my thesis again.
I am trying to install MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXnicCenter 2 Alpha 2. It is installed but when I am running my LaTeX file it is showing error that the source file is more than five years old.
Please tell me what to do?
Best Answer
All basic macros for LaTeX is contained with
latex.ltx
. There is a version-control component (originally fromltvers.dtx
) which checks whether your existinglatex.ltx
is too old:It checks whether
\fmtversion
is older than 65 months. If it is, then it prints the message you report, otherwise it continues without problem.You either didn't install the latest version of MiKTeX 2.9 properly, or there's another distribution interfering with it. Re-install it correctly to obtain an up-to-date version.
Alternatively, if this does not work (for whatever reason), you can edit
latex.ltx
* and modify the condition\ifnum\count@>65
to (say)\ifnum\count@>100
. However, it's best to properly install and update your distribution.* Perhaps located in
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base
.