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I'm having trouble getting the tikz-cd package working. My MWE is

\documentclass{standalone}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}

\begin{document}
hello world
\end{document}

This results in an error 

LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 17, version
           `2013/12/13' of package tikz,
           but only version
           `2010/10/13 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.76)'
           is available.

(/home/babadook/texmf/tex/generic/tikz-cd/tikzlibrarycd.code.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzlibrarymatrix.co    de.tex)
! I can't find file `tikzlibraryquotes.code.tex'.
<argument> ...nput tikzlibrary\pgf@temp .code.tex
                                              \catcode `\@ =\csname tikz...
l.18 \usetikzlibrary{matrix,quotes,arrows.meta}

(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<argument> ...nput tikzlibrary\pgf@temp .code.tex
                                              \catcode `\@ =\csname tikz...
l.18 \usetikzlibrary{matrix,quotes,arrows.meta}

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on foo.log.

LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Mar 31 13:13:42

It looks like I'm using a dated version of tikz but I'm not sure how to update the package.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

Brian Fitzpatrick
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  • is this error message from the minimal code you give above? – touhami Mar 31 '15 at 05:59
  • get the package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ extract it it have TDS form :tex\latex\pgf tex\generic\pgf ... each of them go to the equivalent in your installation than texhash – touhami Mar 31 '15 at 06:07
  • This is a warning, not an error. Or does your compilation stop? If you are not able to update your TikZ files, you should try to work with your current set-up. If you are getting real errors, you should ask here again. – LaRiFaRi Mar 31 '15 at 08:35
  • @LaRiFaRi Thanks for pointing that out. I updated the question with the full error message. I am not getting any output written. – Brian Fitzpatrick Mar 31 '15 at 17:18
  • @BrianFitzpatrick Well, you will have to update than. Or if you can't do that, get an older version of tikz-cd which does not require those new libraries of TikZ. Or try to find the code of the library quotes and copy it into your version of tikz-cd replacing the call of \usetikzlibrary{quotes} – LaRiFaRi Apr 10 '15 at 07:15
  • @LaRiFaRi How would I go about updating? – Brian Fitzpatrick Apr 10 '15 at 07:47
  • @BrianFitzpatrick By reading this post: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2044 – LaRiFaRi Apr 10 '15 at 08:40
  • @BrianFitzpatrick Is your problem solved? – LaRiFaRi Apr 29 '15 at 13:29
  • @LaRiFaRi no it isn't – Brian Fitzpatrick Apr 29 '15 at 16:15

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It seems that you have downloaded the most recent version of tikz-cd and stored it in your personal tree, under ~/texmf. However, this version of tikz-cd requires a more recent version of tikz than you have on your system and it fails because it needs files that are absent from that tikz distribution.

You could download also TikZ version 3.0.0; however this will probably open other problems because packages have several interdependencies.

You should upgrade your TeX distribution at least to TeX Live 2014, which will already contain the version of tikz-cd you need. If Ubuntu doesn't provide it, install the “vanilla” version. See How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu? and the excellent answer by Silke, that can be easily modified for the present version that's 2015.

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  • This may be the correct answer, but I installed the latest 2015 version, but it still seems to be using the old version... – Yan King Yin Jul 31 '15 at 08:00