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I am writing my thesis by using isuthesis package. I want page numbers to come at the middle of bottom of the page. For that I thought of using fancyhdr package.

\documentclass[answers,a4paper]{isuthesis}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\begin{document}
hello world
\end{document}

I get the build error:

! LaTeX Error: Command \lhead already defined. Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

Please help in solving this error.

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    presumably the thesis package you are using already has an lhead command for setting the heading, so you should use that. you'll need to look to its documentation – David Carlisle Sep 20 '14 at 14:03
  • The isuthesis.cls from the Iowa State University can be obtained here: isuthesis.zip It does in fact define the \lhead etc. commands already. However, it seems in some portions to be outdated – user31729 Sep 21 '14 at 9:59
  • I am not an expert in latex, so not able to understand documentation of .cls file well. Please suggest how to get page numbers at middle of the bottom of the page? – user961708 Sep 22 '14 at 5:25
  • \cfoot{\thepage} without hancyhdr? – Symbol 1 Sep 26 '14 at 3:02
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As stated in the comments, the class already defines commands like \lhead or cfoot, you can just use them.

By default, the pagenumber is set in the center of the head, you first need to clear this field or the page number will appear two times on the page. 

\documentclass{isuthesis}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\chead{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
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