[Tex/LaTex] Which TeX distribution? (Undefined control sequence)

document-classestexlive

(FYI I am new to LaTeX)

I'm trying to compile a TeX document that someone else has given me. I had BasicTex installed, and it didn't seem to work. My friend said he uses TeX Live, so I tried installing that but I get the same error after typing pdftex document.tex:

! Undefined control sequence.
l.1 \documentclass
                  [final,hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false}]{beamer}

I'm guessing that means the distribution I have installed does not support this tag, is that right? How can I find out which distribution I should install?

Best Answer

Your document is a LaTeX document, not plain TeX. Use the pdflatex command on it.

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