[Tex/LaTex] Undefined control sequence. \luatexversion with animate package

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I am using pdflatex on a fresh (and current) MikTex 2.9 install with the following MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
 Test
\end{document}

Pdflatex throws the error:

Package: pdfbase 2017/03/23 v0.14 driver independent access to low-level PDF fe
atures
\g_pbs_page_int=\count175

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \luatexversion 
                          <95
l.924 }

I have read the other posts containing the offending control sequence, especially this one but the solutions offered there didn't help in my case.

This problem might have arisen with a recent MikTex update. I have now completely uninstalled, redownloaded, reinstalled and updates MikTex — with no success.

Best Answer

Update the media9 package to version 0.81 as of 2017/07/24 which provides file pdfbase.sty loaded by pkg animate.

Quickfix until the next package update of MiKTeX: Put the current ↗pdfbase.sty into the working directory (directory with your document source).

A recent LaTeX3 kernel update made fixing media9 (and other packages) necessary. Related: What does greedy \bool_if:n(TF) mean?

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