Natbib version not compatible with revtex4-1 from texlive-publishers

[janitor048]

Binary package hint: texlive-base

revtex4-1 included in texlive-publishers (2009-7ubuntu3) does not work with version 8.31 of natbib included in texlive-latex-base (2009-7). It requires the most recent version 8.31a (see http://authors.aps.org/revtex4/).
Latex documents using the documentclass revtex4-1 can therefore not be compiled on Lucid.

[Andre (ajx)]

there might be a work-around: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9097651&postcount=4

[janitor048 (g-janitor048-googlemail-com)]

Well, of course you can fix this by manually downloading and installing the latest natbib version into a texmf tree of your choice (system-wide or user-based).
But still it remains a bug in ubuntu - there should be no version conflicts in the packages of a LTS version. The fix would certainly be to include natbib 8.31a into texlive-latex-base.

[Andre (ajx)]

I agree. This needs to be fixed.

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

One workaround is to install texlive-publishers version 2009-9 from Debian Unstable - this package now contains revtex4 in addition to revtex 4.1. Apparently revtex 4.1 is buggy anyway, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561836.

[Kyle Spyksma (kspyksma)]

Many journals (aps and aip), are requiring the use of revtex4.1, buggy or not, for manuscript submission. Another reason to bput natbib v8.31a into texlive-latex-base.

[Juan M Lopez (lopez-s)]

Hasn't been fixed for a year yet. I had to manually update both revtex4-1 to its latest version to get affiliations to work properly AND natbib to compile a paper. A LTS version should not have this problems for so long. Having to manually update latex packages is quite inefficient, one chooses a LTS version for a reason.

[cluracan (josephsonjunction)]

I also have this problem. Worse - for some reason once in a while (probably during some system update) the natbib is reverted to the older LTS version and I have to reinstall it.

Quite annoying.

[Ville Bergholm (ville-bergholm)]

Still present in Ubuntu 12.04 due to the antiquated texlive 2009 it uses.

Workaround: Install the backported texlive 2012 from 12.10.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/163682/how-do-i-install-the-latest-tex-live-2012-on-ubuntu-12-04

[Vikram Jadhao (vikramjadhao)]

The following worked for me. I am on 12.04 LTS.

1. If you have texlive-publishers installed, remove it. (This step is necessary as otherwise it won't let you do step 3).

2. Follow the steps in this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9097651&postcount=4

3. Get and install the texlive-publishers package using this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-extra/+bug/575812/comments/2

This resolves the affiliation bug. In addition, it also defaults to urls not being displayed with the bibtex in the references.