[Tex/LaTex] spanish option for babel

babelmiktexspanish

I recently updated my Miktex 2.9 and when I tried to compile my files I get the following error, which I didn't have before:

package babel error: unknown option spanish. Either you misspelled it
or the language definition file spanish.ldf was not found.

This is a MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{pstricks}
\usepackage{amsfonts,amssymb,amsmath,mathrsfs,enumerate,epsfig,fullpage,pst-grad,pst-plot}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\begin{document} Esta es una prueba. \end{document}

Best Answer

The organization of babel has changed. The languages has been separated into separate distribution packages and are now independently maintained. In MiKTeX you have to install babel-spanish to get babel's spanish.

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