fresh installation of PGF/TikZ crashes, why?

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Published on 2010-06-06T06:32:53Z Indexed on 2010/06/06 6:42 UTC
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I have a clean CentOS 5.5 machine with tetex installed. Next, I installed PGF/TikZ:

wget http://media.texample.net/pgf/builds/pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip
unzip pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip
\cp -r tex /usr/share/texmf
texhash

I'm trying to compile a simple document and this is what I'm getting:

$ latex test.tex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
.. skipped ..
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/pgf.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg))))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgffor.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-common.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfutil-latex.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfrcs.code.tex))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeysfiltered.code.tex)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgffor.code.tex))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/tikz.code.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibraryplothandlers.code.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
\pgfsetplottension ...ttension {\pgf@sys@tonumber 
                                                  \pgf@x }
l.104 \pgfsetplottension{0.5}

? 

I failed to find any clues in the net about this problem. On other servers I don't such a problem. Could anyone help please? Thanks!

ps. Btw, I tried another build of PGF/TikZ, the older one, no luck :(

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