I can't find file `pgfutil-common-lists.tex'

Question

I am using texlive 2013, and just ran the following command to update the packages.

sudo ./tlmgr update  -all

After it finished, I tried to compile tex documents that uses tikz package as the following MWE shows:

 \documentclass{article}
 \usepackage{tikz}
 \begin{document}
      aaaa
 \end{document}

Then pdflatex complains; it said:

 (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.sty
 (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex
 ! I can't find file `pgfutil-common-lists.tex'.
 l.556 \input pgfutil-common-lists.tex

The problem is that, pgfutil-common-lists.tex is indeed in the directory:

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/

Why is that? pdflatex should be able to find it, right? I even download the pgf package again, and replace the pgf directory in

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/

Nothing changed at all........... Any idea? Thank you for your critics.

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Then followed the comments, I type the following command in the terminal:

1. sudo mktexlsr gives me command not found;

2. mktexlsr gives me:

   mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/2013/../texmf-local: directory not writable. Skipping... mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-config: directory not writable. Skipping... mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist: directory not writable. Skipping... mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-var: directory not writable. Skipping... mktexlsr: Done;

3. Forkpsewhich pgfutil-common-lists.tex, nothing pops up.

Answer 1

It looks like that your path setting is wrong. Try once

export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux:~/bin:$PATH

change x86_64 if you do not have a 64 bit system. Then run again sudo mktexlsr If it works then add to your local .bashrc:

export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux:~/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH
export INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH