Installing xcolor

Question

I get the error:

! Package hyperref Error: This color specification is not supported
(hyperref)                without package `xcolor' in
(hyperref)                `linkbordercolor=111'.

See the hyperref package documentation for explanation.

I installed it from http://www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html under the location:

/usr/local/texlive/2011basic/texmf/tex/latex/xcolor

And put the .pro file under:

/usr/local/texlive/2011basic/texmf/dvips/xcolor

Still getting the error. Any clues?

EDIT:

http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/xcolor.pdf

Usually, you will have to run some kind of filename database update in order to make the files known and quickly searchable to the TEX system

Answer 1

Short: To update your TEXMF database run texhash.

Long:

I would always install packages from CTAN, e.g. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor, in the case of xcolor, but the author's website is of course also fine.

The README file contains installation instructions:

Installation instructions
=========================

Extract all package files:
  `latex xcolor.ins'

Put the generated files to their respective locations
within the TeX installation:
  *.sty -> /tex/latex/xcolor/
  *.def -> /tex/latex/xcolor/
  *.pro -> /dvips/xcolor/

Create the documentation:
  `latex xcolor.dtx'
  `latex xcolor.dtx'
  `makeindex -s gind.ist xcolor.idx'
  `latex xcolor.dtx'
  `latex xcolor.dtx'

Run the test files (N=1,2,...):
  `latex xcolorN.tex'
  `latex xcolorN.tex'

However, TeX Live comes with a package manager called tlmgr (not included in the version delivered by Ubuntu or Debian). With this manager you can install xcolor simply using:

tlmgr install xcolor

Which will update the database as well. Note that you can update all installed packages using:

tlmgr update --self --all

I personally would simply install the full TeX Live (if you have the HD space of ~2.5GB) using:

tlmgr install scheme-full

Then you don't have these issue any longer.

Answer 2

I suppose you have set the color as

linkbordercolor=1 1 1

try it this way:

linkbordercolor={1 1 1}