Error "File `fxthemecolor.sty' not found." with fixme package

Question

This code:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[margin]{fixme}
\fxsetup{theme=color}

\begin{document}    
    Duck\fxnote{quack}
\end{document}

gives me this error:

! LaTeX Error: File `fxthemecolor.sty' not found.

(but it worked till few days ago).

I tried to uninstall and re-install fixme package with MiKTeX but it doesn't change anything.

Answer 1

as far as I can tell, this is a MiKTeX problem. I'm not familiar with this distribution but this page seems to indicate that it's currently missing the targets and layouts subdirectories. Maybe you could confirm this by running

ls -R `dirname \`kpsewhich fixme.sty\``

I'm using the MacTeX TeXlive distribution, and as of this morning, it works fine. As an emergency solution, you could install FiXme by hand locally. For that, you may:

1. download the tarball from here (or browse CTAN), unpack and follow the instructions in the README[.md] file, or even simpler,
2. get the bleeding edge version:

git clone https://github.com/didierverna/fixme.git; cd fixme; make install

Hope this helps,

Answer 2

It is a miktex problem. Some files are missing in the package. This can (and did) happen in miktex and in texlive. Packaging can go wrong in various ways. It e.g. also can happen that files ends up in the wrong folder, e.g. a needed file in the doc-folder.

In miktex you can see the content of a package by going to the package manager, selecting the package and choosing "properties" in the context menu.

In tlmgr you can see it with tlmgr info <package> --list.

If you suspect a packaging error you can then compare the file list e.g. with the documentation or the README of the package on CTAN.

If you are in pressing need to use the package you can always download the files from CTAN and move them e.g. in your document folder. Beside this you should inform the maintainer of the tex system about the error. For miktex through the bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/, for texlive by writing to the mailing list.

In this case I added an entry for fixme https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/2572/