pgfplots: I do not know the key '/tikz/nodes near coords' error [closed]

Question

I'm trying to create a simple plot using pgfplots. I have a problem though that drives me crazy. I'm working on a debian installation and had installed the tex-live version from the repositories. The code below was giving me the following error

! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/nodes near coords' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it.

I though that the package was outdated and since there was no way to update it otherwise i removed the repo version of tex-live and install the one from their website (version 2011). I'm still getting the same error message though. I have to mention that the same code compiles correctly in my windows installation. Any idea why this might happen?

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\chead{\footnotesize {header title} }
\cfoot{\footnotesize Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}

\title{my title}
\author{me}


\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{[\arabic{enumi}]}
\fontsize{11}{12}
\selectfont

\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \begin{axis}
  [
    ybar,
    bar width = 1cm,
    xmin=1, xmax=1,
    xticklabels={,,},
    enlargelimits=0.15,
    xlabel={OpenCL implementation},
    ylabel={time (sec)},
    xtick=data,
    nodes near coords
  ]   
    \addplot coordinates {(1, 24.0)}; \addlegendentry{Version 1}
    \addplot coordinates {(1, 14.5)}; \addlegendentry{Version 2}
    \addplot coordinates {(1, 10.0)}; \addlegendentry{Version 3}
    \addplot coordinates {(1,  9.6)}; \addlegendentry{Version 4}
  \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\captionof{figure}{Figure caption}
\label{fig:example_caption}
\end{center}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Based on the error message the version of the pgfplots library is outdated. You should upgrade to the latest version.

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Using the latest version, and correcting the typo in the last line:

\addplot coordinates {(1,  9.6)}; \addlegendentry{Version 4}

I get the plot shown below. There are probably other pgfplots/tikz libraries that need updating. If you are just starting out, it would be best to do a fresh install of TeXLive and go from there.