Fixing LaTeX Unknown option fetbodydiode for package circuitikz

Problem:

You want to compile a LaTeX file containing CircuiTikZ code but you get the following error:

latex_error_output.txt
LaTeX Error: Unknown option `fetbodydiode' for package `circuitikz'

Solution:

You have an outdated CircuiTikZ version (fetbodydiode is in TeXLive 2016+).  Depending on your distribution, there are several ways to update CircuiTikZ:

For ubuntu, see this post to update to TeXLive 2016 For other distributions, see this post using tlmgr


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