Section numbers disappear

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I don't have enough reputation to write a comment, so I have to ask a separate question instead.

I tried Gonzalo Medina's answer to this question: How to add an extra level of sections with headings below \subsubsection

It seems to work fine, except that section headings don't have numbers, as can be seen on my screenshot. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Edit: I am talking about Gonzalo Medina's second solution in the link above.

Be sure to have an up-to-date version of titlesec; one version had a bug that in some cases prevented section numbers to appear. — egreg, Aug 03 '16 at 20:40
There are two solutions Gonzalo Medina's answer. Which one are you using? — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 03 '16 at 21:48
I am unable to reproduce the issue you've encountered. Please tells us which version of the titlesec package you have on your system. On my system (TeXlive2016, fully updated), I found the following information in the log file: titlesec 2016/03/21 v2.10.2. — Mico, Aug 04 '16 at 05:40
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the issue is solved with a software update — egreg, Aug 04 '16 at 12:30

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '16 at 12:28

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As suggested by egreg in the comments of the question, the solution was as simple as updating the packages. I didn't know that the texlive package available in the Ubuntu repository was not the most up to date. I followed the instructions on the link below to get the most updated version of texlive and now it works.

http://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html

answered Aug 04 '16 at 12:28

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I once had ubuntu installed on my laptop and I was highly disappointed by its TeX distribution packages. I deleted that installation and never tried again, but I can hardly remember that anybody recommends using the ubuntu TL packages. Just use the installation provided by TeXLive (i.e. the net installation) – Aug 04 '16 at 14:24

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