[OS X TeX] MacTex 2008 and (Oberdiek) kvoptions

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 6, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Joe Goddard wrote:

> Dear Anyone:
>
> After upgrading to MacTex 2008 and TexShop 2.18, I get failure to  
> typeset
> a LaTeX article file with
>
> \usepackage{epstopdf}
>
> in the preamble. The console error message is:
>
> "...
> (Users/~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/kvoptions.sty)
>
> LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 127, version
> 	'2007/10/02' of package kvoptions,
> 	but only version
> 	'2006/06/01 v2.2 Connects package keyval with LaTeX options (HO)
> '
> 	is available
>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ 
> pdftexcmds.sty)
> !Undefined control sequence.
> l.163 \DeclareBoolOption
>
> 	(update)
> ? "
>
> Could there be an incompatibility in the oberdiek package, or am I  
> misinterpreting the
> error?
>
> Thanks, Joe Goddard

Howdy,

Do you have some outdated packages (as far as MacTeX 2008 is  
concerned) in ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex or /usr/local/texlive/texmf- 
local/tex/latex/?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)