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I'm trying to export a notebook from Jupyter as a PDF file and server dumps this error mesage:

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I'm running jupyter notebook inside a singularity container with CentOS 7.5. The versions of the jupyter stack are:

  • jupyter core : 4.5.0
  • jupyter-notebook : 6.0.0
  • qtconsole : 4.5.3
  • ipython : 7.7.0
  • ipykernel : 5.1.2
  • jupyter client : 5.3.1
  • jupyter lab : not installed
  • nbconvert : 5.6.0
  • ipywidgets : 7.5.1
  • nbformat : 4.4.0
  • traitlets : 4.3.2

I installed all avaible texlive packages in the CentOs7, but the error persist.

Thank you for the help.

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The problem is with the outdated version of tcolorbox installed by CentOS 7.

I encountered the same problem on CentOS 7.8:

  • sudo yum list texlive-tcolorbox reveals that CentOS 7.8 installs version svn29372.2.02-56 of tcolorbox . This stands for version 2.02 (from 2013/03/13)
  • In the latest version of tcolorbox, it appears the tcb/size choice is defined here. I do not find this definition in the source code of version 2.02. The changelog does not mention when this was introduced. Looking through the history of the repository on Github, it must have been introduced before the start of the git history at version 3.05 (and I did not find the SVN).

The problem can be "fixed" by downloading version 3.96 of tcolorbox from https://github.com/T-F-S/tcolorbox/releases/tag/v3.96 and copying it over the texlive installation under /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tcolorbox (later versions of tcolorbox introduce other unmet dependencies).