Re: siunitx error: "package expl3 too old"

Szabolcs Horvát <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2011.07.27. 13:37, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:31:23 +0200 schrieb Szabolcs Horvát:
>
>> Dear group members,
>>
>> After updating MiKTeX 2.9 recently, when trying to use the siunitx
>> package, I get the following error:
>>
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> !
>> ! siunitx error: "support-outdated"
>> !
>> ! Support package expl3 too old.
>> !
>> ! See the siunitx documentation for further information.
>> !
>> ! For immediate help type H<return>.
>> !...............................................
>>
>> Updating MiKTeX doesn't help (it is in fact what caused the error).
>>
>> What is the simplest way to fix this?  I assume I either need to
>> downgrade siunitx somehow or update expl3.
>
> The package names have changed. expl3 is now l3kernel (and xpackages
> is l3packages). Synchronize your repository (in user + admin mode).
> Deinstall expl3 and install l3kernel.
>

Thank you for the prompt reply Ulrike.  I already had l3kernel 
installed, but apparently it did not get updated before the repository 
was manually synchronized.




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