why tcolorbox example on pp. 345 doesn't work

Question

I wish to improve my (very basic) knowledge about tcolorbox .. so I try to compile example in pp. 345 (chapter 18: Library "hooks"). Compiling it I receive warning:

\RequiredPackage{minted}{2011/09/17]

which I have installed by MikTeX package manager, then after forcing compilation ask for

\minted@appathifexist=

etc

I use recent 64-bit MikTeX with administrative privilege and WinEdt as editor. The example code is the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[all]{tcolorbox}
    \usepackage{array,tabularx}%,longtable,tabu

    \begin{document}
    \newcolumntype{Y}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}% see tabularx
\tcbset{enhanced,fonttitle=\bfseries\large,
        fontupper=\normalsize\sffamily,
        colback=yellow!10!white,colframe=red!50!black,
        colbacktitle=orange!30!white,%=Salmon!30!white
        coltitle=black,center title,
    tabularx={X||Y|Y|Y|Y||Y},% this sets ’before upper’ and ’after upper’
        before upper app={Group & One & Two & Three & Four & Sum\\
                          \hline\hline} }
\begin{tcolorbox}[title=My table]
Red & 1000.00 & 2000.00 & 3000.00 & 4000.00 & 10000.00\\\hline
Green & 2000.00 & 3000.00 & 4000.00 & 5000.00 & 14000.00\\\hline
Blue & 3000.00 & 4000.00 & 5000.00 & 6000.00 & 18000.00\\\hline\hline
Sum & 6000.00 & 9000.00 & 12000.00 & 15000.00 & 42000.00
\end{tcolorbox}
    \end{document}

On the end I above code generate the following picture:

I expect that this would work "out of box" similarly as some other examples from manual, so do not know what I'm doing wrong or what I miss.

If I load also colortbl (for \arrayrulecolor) and run pdflatex -shell-escape test, I get the expected result. See this picture — egreg, Aug 01 '15 at 19:54
@egreg since tcolorbox internally loads xcolor, this \documentclass[table]{article} is alos enough. You should turn your comment into an answer. — Gonzalo Medina, Aug 01 '15 at 19:57
You may want to see this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/108661/11232 — , Aug 01 '15 at 23:37
@HarishKumar, I manage this. Now I need only to install Python (if I understand correctly). On https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ iI discover, that exist two versions: 2.7.10 and 3.4.3. What is difference between them and which one you suggest to install? — Zarko, Aug 01 '15 at 23:50
@Zarko: you can install any. 3.4.3 has more features. But for this job, even 2.7.10 is enough. — , Aug 01 '15 at 23:54
@HarishKumar, instaling Pythen was very challenge task. At this work your comments was of big help and very valuable. Thank you very much! — Zarko, Aug 05 '15 at 11:39

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '15 at 20:03

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I get the same output as you if I don't load colortbl: the error is!

Undefined control sequence.
\tcb@after@box ->\endtabularx \arrayrulecolor 
                                              {black}
l.20 \end{tcolorbox}

and \arrayrulecolor is a command of colortbl.

If I add colortbl to the list of packages (or, as Gonzalo Medina suggests, add table to the options for \documentclass), the output is

without any error.

answered Aug 01 '15 at 20:03

egreg

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at me this doesn't help. I still receive error: You must invoke LaTex with the -shell-escape flag and open file tcbminted.code.tex probably as source of error, but this time on the end I receive correct picture. And TeXAuX directory, where should be log file, is empty. Now I'm completely confused. – Zarko Aug 01 '15 at 20:24
@Zarko Of course you have to add the -shell-escape option as I said in my comment: this is always needed for minted. – egreg Aug 01 '15 at 20:25
where? do I need to compile from DOS window? I try this, but receive error: you must have pygmentize instaled to use this package. Do I re-install tcolorbox? – Zarko Aug 01 '15 at 20:39
@Zarko That depends on the front-end you're using. Pygmentize should of course be available on your machine: it's a Python library. – egreg Aug 01 '15 at 20:40
as far as know, I haven't installed python nor python library, except if this is automatically installed with some program. – Zarko Aug 01 '15 at 20:49
@Zarko Well, if you don't have Python you can't have Pygmentize and can't use minted. – egreg Aug 01 '15 at 20:56
that one need to have python for use of hang library, is nowhere mentioned in the manual. I'm now little disappointed. Anyway, I need to wait to my system administrator to help me fix this problem ( I haven't this privilege). Hopefully he will return from vacation in Monday :-( – Zarko Aug 01 '15 at 21:14
@Zarko That's required for minted; tcolorbox just adds an interface to it. By itself, tcolorbox needs nothing else than a TeX distribution. – egreg Aug 01 '15 at 21:18
@eqreg, SE now complain that this become discussion ... can we move to chat? – Zarko Aug 01 '15 at 21:25
@Zarko: Go to Options → Execution Modes and the in the window that opens, choose pdflatex (or any engine that you use). Add --shell-escape in Switches. See this picture: http://i.stack.imgur.com/bY3rH.png – Aug 01 '15 at 23:41
@egreg, I like to test an answer before accept it. Due to issues with Python, I was not able to do this till to now. Installing of Python was challenging task ... with help of my (our) system administrator, I manage this today! Thank you for your help and patience. – Zarko Aug 05 '15 at 11:36

why tcolorbox example on pp. 345 doesn't work

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