Different versions between AMC and LaTeX style file version, any solution?

Added by FF S about 6 years ago

I installed AMC from this PPA on my machine which is running Ubuntu 18.04LTS.

However, when I update documents from inside AMC GUI I get this WARNING message (see attachment). It tells me that the AMC version is different from the LaTeX style file version. The automultiplechoice.sty is located in this path:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/AMC/. I think that it is installed when I already installed AMC using the above PPA repo.

So how did I get into this warning message in the first place? What went wrong with my installation. Please help me, I must prepare the sheets the next exam in two days and I am afraid as this WARNING message also points out that I may run into issues later on using AMC when I do capturing and scoring. The documents were otherwise updated successfully, but I won't print the sheets (anonymous 75 copies with different ID) until someone helps me out to clear up this WARNING message and how I can fix it. I don't want to take the risk of printing the sheets and then running into troubles after the exam. I look forward to your help soon.

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Replies (2)

RE: Different versions between AMC and LaTeX style file version, any solution? - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe about 6 years ago

The style file installed with the package from the PPA is in the folder /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/AMC/.
You can remove (or move away) the one in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/AMC/.

RE: Different versions between AMC and LaTeX style file version, any solution? - Added by FF S about 6 years ago

Thank you for your timely help. That resolved the issue. First, I moved away the old sty file from /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/AMC. I fired up AMC and updated my documents an error was thrown complaining of not finding the sty file. So I realized that AMC still looks for the sty in that old path, so I did a symlink like that from the terminal:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/AMC/automultiplechoice.sty /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/AMC/

would that be safe in future? How can I make AMC lookup the sty file in the path of its installation by default i.e. in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/AMC/?

best regards,

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