Class moderncv error: undefined control sequence gitlabsocialsymbol












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I'm having problems to display the favicon for Gitlab in my moderncv project. I think it has to do with my installation of moderncv.



I'm on a Ubuntu machine and first I installed texlive-latex-extra.



After some googling I found out that the moderncv version in TeX Live is out of date. So I cloned the moderncv git repo and put it into /home/{user}/texmf/tex/latex/moderncv.



$ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
/home/{user}/texmf


So I would think that the newer version of moderncv in my home folder has precedence. But apparently this is not the case.



When I try to compile the example template from moderncv



%% start of file `template.tex'.
%% Copyright 2006-2015 Xavier Danaux (xdanaux@gmail.com).
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c,
% available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.


documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} % possible options include font size ('10pt', '11pt' and '12pt'), paper size ('a4paper', 'letterpaper', 'a5paper', 'legalpaper', 'executivepaper' and 'landscape') and font family ('sans' and 'roman')

% moderncv themes
moderncvstyle{casual} % style options are 'casual' (default), 'classic', 'banking', 'oldstyle' and 'fancy'
moderncvcolor{blue} % color options 'black', 'blue' (default), 'burgundy', 'green', 'grey', 'orange', 'purple' and 'red'
%renewcommand{familydefault}{sfdefault} % to set the default font; use 'sfdefault' for the default sans serif font, 'rmdefault' for the default roman one, or any tex font name
%nopagenumbers{} % uncomment to suppress automatic page numbering for CVs longer than one page

% character encoding
%usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % if you are not using xelatex ou lualatex, replace by the encoding you are using
%usepackage{CJKutf8} % if you need to use CJK to typeset your resume in Chinese, Japanese or Korean

% adjust the page margins
usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
%setlength{hintscolumnwidth}{3cm} % if you want to change the width of the column with the dates
%setlength{makecvheadnamewidth}{10cm} % for the 'classic' style, if you want to force the width allocated to your name and avoid line breaks. be careful though, the length is normally calculated to avoid any overlap with your personal info; use this at your own typographical risks...

% personal data
name{John}{Doe}
title{Resumé title} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the optional "type" of the phone can be "mobile" (default), "fixed" or "fax"
phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
email{john@doe.org} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
homepage{www.johndoe.com} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[linkedin]{john.doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[xing]{john_doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[twitter]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[github]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[gitlab]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[skype]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
extrainfo{additional information} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
photo[64pt][0.4pt]{picture} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; '64pt' is the height the picture must be resized to, 0.4pt is the thickness of the frame around it (put it to 0pt for no frame) and 'picture' is the name of the picture file
quote{Some quote} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted

% bibliography adjustements (only useful if you make citations in your resume, or print a list of publications using BibTeX)
% to show numerical labels in the bibliography (default is to show no labels)
%makeatletterrenewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}makeatother
renewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{[arabic{enumiv}]}
% to redefine the bibliography heading string ("Publications")
%renewcommand{refname}{Articles}

% bibliography with mutiple entries
%usepackage{multibib}
%newcites{book,misc}{{Books},{Others}}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% content
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
begin{document}
%begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn} % to typeset your resume in Chinese using CJK
%----- resume ---------------------------------------------------------
makecvtitle

section{Education}
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

section{Master thesis}
cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

section{Experience}
subsection{Vocational}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
begin{itemize}%
item Achievement 1;
item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
begin{itemize}%
item Sub-achievement (a);
item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
begin{itemize}
item Sub-sub-achievement i;
item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
end{itemize}
item Sub-achievement (c);
end{itemize}
item Achievement 3.
end{itemize}}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description line 1newline{}Description line 2}
subsection{Miscellaneous}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

section{Languages}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 2}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

section{Computer skills}
cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

section{Interests}
cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

section{Extra 1}
cvlistitem{Item 1}
cvlistitem{Item 2}
cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation when the line wraps?}

section{Extra 2}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5cite{book1}}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

section{References}
begin{cvcolumns}
cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
end{cvcolumns}

% Publications from a BibTeX file without multibib
% for numerical labels: renewcommand{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}% CONSIDER MERGING WITH PREAMBLE PART
% to redefine the heading string ("Publications"): renewcommand{refname}{Articles}
nocite{*}
bibliographystyle{plain}
bibliography{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

% Publications from a BibTeX file using the multibib package
%section{Publications}
%nocitebook{book1,book2}
%bibliographystylebook{plain}
%bibliographybook{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file
%nocitemisc{misc1,misc2,misc3}
%bibliographystylemisc{plain}
%bibliographymisc{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

clearpage
%----- letter ---------------------------------------------------------
% recipient data
recipient{Company Recruitment team}{Company, Inc.\123 somestreet\some city}
date{January 01, 1984}
opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
closing{Yours faithfully,}
enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vitae{}} % use an optional argument to use a string other than "Enclosure", or redefine enclname
makelettertitle

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis ullamcorper neque sit amet lectus facilisis sed luctus nisl iaculis. Vivamus at neque arcu, sed tempor quam. Curabitur pharetra tincidunt tincidunt. Morbi volutpat feugiat mauris, quis tempor neque vehicula volutpat. Duis tristique justo vel massa fermentum accumsan. Mauris ante elit, feugiat vestibulum tempor eget, eleifend ac ipsum. Donec scelerisque lobortis ipsum eu vestibulum. Pellentesque vel massa at felis accumsan rhoncus.

Suspendisse commodo, massa eu congue tincidunt, elit mauris pellentesque orci, cursus tempor odio nisl euismod augue. Aliquam adipiscing nibh ut odio sodales et pulvinar tortor laoreet. Mauris a accumsan ligula. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Suspendisse vulputate sem vehicula ipsum varius nec tempus dui dapibus. Phasellus et est urna, ut auctor erat. Sed tincidunt odio id odio aliquam mattis. Donec sapien nulla, feugiat eget adipiscing sit amet, lacinia ut dolor. Phasellus tincidunt, leo a fringilla consectetur, felis diam aliquam urna, vitae aliquet lectus orci nec velit. Vivamus dapibus varius blandit.

Duis sit amet magna ante, at sodales diam. Aenean consectetur porta risus et sagittis. Ut interdum, enim varius pellentesque tincidunt, magna libero sodales tortor, ut fermentum nunc metus a ante. Vivamus odio leo, tincidunt eu luctus ut, sollicitudin sit amet metus. Nunc sed orci lectus. Ut sodales magna sed velit volutpat sit amet pulvinar diam venenatis.

Albert Einstein discovered that $e=mc^2$ in 1905.

[ e=lim_{n to infty} left(1+frac{1}{n}right)^n ]

makeletterclosing

%clearpageend{CJK*} % if you are typesetting your resume in Chinese using CJK; the clearpage is required for fancyhdr to work correctly with CJK, though it kills the page numbering by making lastpage undefined
end{document}


%% end of file `template.tex'.


I get the following error:



Undefined control sequence.
gitlabsocialsymbol ->{small faGitlab


If it makes any difference I'm using VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop plugin. I think the compiler it is using is latexmk.



If I take out the line social[gitlab]{jdoe} everything works fine.



Would be much appreciated if anyone could help me sort out these issues. Happy to provide any additional info that is needed.










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  • Welcome to TeX StackExchange. If you had to manually update moerncv, most likely the fontawesome package is out of date too. Sadly, manually updating fontawesome is a bit more advanced and might require even more updates of other packages. So I would recommend replacing the whole TeX Live version packaged for Ubuntu with an up-to-date version of TeX Live. See here for details how to install "vanilla" TeX Live on Ubuntu.

    – Marcel Krüger
    14 hours ago











  • Thanks for your reply! Yes I think you are right in regards to fontawesome. I was using a version from 2015. I just tried to update by downloading a package from ctan and putting the files in my local texmf folder. It does compile now with the Gitlab favicon but the icons are all wrong now and I get warnings that fonts were substitued. I guess I will try your way and install up-to-date TeX Live.

    – c_student
    14 hours ago











  • You did not tell us the version numbers of your used class moderncv and fontawesome. Some time ago there was a severe bug in fontawesome. Did you compile with pdflatex or xelatex?

    – Kurt
    2 hours ago
















1















I'm having problems to display the favicon for Gitlab in my moderncv project. I think it has to do with my installation of moderncv.



I'm on a Ubuntu machine and first I installed texlive-latex-extra.



After some googling I found out that the moderncv version in TeX Live is out of date. So I cloned the moderncv git repo and put it into /home/{user}/texmf/tex/latex/moderncv.



$ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
/home/{user}/texmf


So I would think that the newer version of moderncv in my home folder has precedence. But apparently this is not the case.



When I try to compile the example template from moderncv



%% start of file `template.tex'.
%% Copyright 2006-2015 Xavier Danaux (xdanaux@gmail.com).
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c,
% available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.


documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} % possible options include font size ('10pt', '11pt' and '12pt'), paper size ('a4paper', 'letterpaper', 'a5paper', 'legalpaper', 'executivepaper' and 'landscape') and font family ('sans' and 'roman')

% moderncv themes
moderncvstyle{casual} % style options are 'casual' (default), 'classic', 'banking', 'oldstyle' and 'fancy'
moderncvcolor{blue} % color options 'black', 'blue' (default), 'burgundy', 'green', 'grey', 'orange', 'purple' and 'red'
%renewcommand{familydefault}{sfdefault} % to set the default font; use 'sfdefault' for the default sans serif font, 'rmdefault' for the default roman one, or any tex font name
%nopagenumbers{} % uncomment to suppress automatic page numbering for CVs longer than one page

% character encoding
%usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % if you are not using xelatex ou lualatex, replace by the encoding you are using
%usepackage{CJKutf8} % if you need to use CJK to typeset your resume in Chinese, Japanese or Korean

% adjust the page margins
usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
%setlength{hintscolumnwidth}{3cm} % if you want to change the width of the column with the dates
%setlength{makecvheadnamewidth}{10cm} % for the 'classic' style, if you want to force the width allocated to your name and avoid line breaks. be careful though, the length is normally calculated to avoid any overlap with your personal info; use this at your own typographical risks...

% personal data
name{John}{Doe}
title{Resumé title} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the optional "type" of the phone can be "mobile" (default), "fixed" or "fax"
phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
email{john@doe.org} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
homepage{www.johndoe.com} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[linkedin]{john.doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[xing]{john_doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[twitter]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[github]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[gitlab]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[skype]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
extrainfo{additional information} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
photo[64pt][0.4pt]{picture} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; '64pt' is the height the picture must be resized to, 0.4pt is the thickness of the frame around it (put it to 0pt for no frame) and 'picture' is the name of the picture file
quote{Some quote} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted

% bibliography adjustements (only useful if you make citations in your resume, or print a list of publications using BibTeX)
% to show numerical labels in the bibliography (default is to show no labels)
%makeatletterrenewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}makeatother
renewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{[arabic{enumiv}]}
% to redefine the bibliography heading string ("Publications")
%renewcommand{refname}{Articles}

% bibliography with mutiple entries
%usepackage{multibib}
%newcites{book,misc}{{Books},{Others}}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% content
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
begin{document}
%begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn} % to typeset your resume in Chinese using CJK
%----- resume ---------------------------------------------------------
makecvtitle

section{Education}
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

section{Master thesis}
cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

section{Experience}
subsection{Vocational}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
begin{itemize}%
item Achievement 1;
item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
begin{itemize}%
item Sub-achievement (a);
item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
begin{itemize}
item Sub-sub-achievement i;
item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
end{itemize}
item Sub-achievement (c);
end{itemize}
item Achievement 3.
end{itemize}}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description line 1newline{}Description line 2}
subsection{Miscellaneous}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

section{Languages}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 2}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

section{Computer skills}
cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

section{Interests}
cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

section{Extra 1}
cvlistitem{Item 1}
cvlistitem{Item 2}
cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation when the line wraps?}

section{Extra 2}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5cite{book1}}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

section{References}
begin{cvcolumns}
cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
end{cvcolumns}

% Publications from a BibTeX file without multibib
% for numerical labels: renewcommand{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}% CONSIDER MERGING WITH PREAMBLE PART
% to redefine the heading string ("Publications"): renewcommand{refname}{Articles}
nocite{*}
bibliographystyle{plain}
bibliography{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

% Publications from a BibTeX file using the multibib package
%section{Publications}
%nocitebook{book1,book2}
%bibliographystylebook{plain}
%bibliographybook{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file
%nocitemisc{misc1,misc2,misc3}
%bibliographystylemisc{plain}
%bibliographymisc{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

clearpage
%----- letter ---------------------------------------------------------
% recipient data
recipient{Company Recruitment team}{Company, Inc.\123 somestreet\some city}
date{January 01, 1984}
opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
closing{Yours faithfully,}
enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vitae{}} % use an optional argument to use a string other than "Enclosure", or redefine enclname
makelettertitle

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis ullamcorper neque sit amet lectus facilisis sed luctus nisl iaculis. Vivamus at neque arcu, sed tempor quam. Curabitur pharetra tincidunt tincidunt. Morbi volutpat feugiat mauris, quis tempor neque vehicula volutpat. Duis tristique justo vel massa fermentum accumsan. Mauris ante elit, feugiat vestibulum tempor eget, eleifend ac ipsum. Donec scelerisque lobortis ipsum eu vestibulum. Pellentesque vel massa at felis accumsan rhoncus.

Suspendisse commodo, massa eu congue tincidunt, elit mauris pellentesque orci, cursus tempor odio nisl euismod augue. Aliquam adipiscing nibh ut odio sodales et pulvinar tortor laoreet. Mauris a accumsan ligula. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Suspendisse vulputate sem vehicula ipsum varius nec tempus dui dapibus. Phasellus et est urna, ut auctor erat. Sed tincidunt odio id odio aliquam mattis. Donec sapien nulla, feugiat eget adipiscing sit amet, lacinia ut dolor. Phasellus tincidunt, leo a fringilla consectetur, felis diam aliquam urna, vitae aliquet lectus orci nec velit. Vivamus dapibus varius blandit.

Duis sit amet magna ante, at sodales diam. Aenean consectetur porta risus et sagittis. Ut interdum, enim varius pellentesque tincidunt, magna libero sodales tortor, ut fermentum nunc metus a ante. Vivamus odio leo, tincidunt eu luctus ut, sollicitudin sit amet metus. Nunc sed orci lectus. Ut sodales magna sed velit volutpat sit amet pulvinar diam venenatis.

Albert Einstein discovered that $e=mc^2$ in 1905.

[ e=lim_{n to infty} left(1+frac{1}{n}right)^n ]

makeletterclosing

%clearpageend{CJK*} % if you are typesetting your resume in Chinese using CJK; the clearpage is required for fancyhdr to work correctly with CJK, though it kills the page numbering by making lastpage undefined
end{document}


%% end of file `template.tex'.


I get the following error:



Undefined control sequence.
gitlabsocialsymbol ->{small faGitlab


If it makes any difference I'm using VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop plugin. I think the compiler it is using is latexmk.



If I take out the line social[gitlab]{jdoe} everything works fine.



Would be much appreciated if anyone could help me sort out these issues. Happy to provide any additional info that is needed.










share|improve this question









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c_student is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
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  • Welcome to TeX StackExchange. If you had to manually update moerncv, most likely the fontawesome package is out of date too. Sadly, manually updating fontawesome is a bit more advanced and might require even more updates of other packages. So I would recommend replacing the whole TeX Live version packaged for Ubuntu with an up-to-date version of TeX Live. See here for details how to install "vanilla" TeX Live on Ubuntu.

    – Marcel Krüger
    14 hours ago











  • Thanks for your reply! Yes I think you are right in regards to fontawesome. I was using a version from 2015. I just tried to update by downloading a package from ctan and putting the files in my local texmf folder. It does compile now with the Gitlab favicon but the icons are all wrong now and I get warnings that fonts were substitued. I guess I will try your way and install up-to-date TeX Live.

    – c_student
    14 hours ago











  • You did not tell us the version numbers of your used class moderncv and fontawesome. Some time ago there was a severe bug in fontawesome. Did you compile with pdflatex or xelatex?

    – Kurt
    2 hours ago














1












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I'm having problems to display the favicon for Gitlab in my moderncv project. I think it has to do with my installation of moderncv.



I'm on a Ubuntu machine and first I installed texlive-latex-extra.



After some googling I found out that the moderncv version in TeX Live is out of date. So I cloned the moderncv git repo and put it into /home/{user}/texmf/tex/latex/moderncv.



$ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
/home/{user}/texmf


So I would think that the newer version of moderncv in my home folder has precedence. But apparently this is not the case.



When I try to compile the example template from moderncv



%% start of file `template.tex'.
%% Copyright 2006-2015 Xavier Danaux (xdanaux@gmail.com).
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c,
% available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.


documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} % possible options include font size ('10pt', '11pt' and '12pt'), paper size ('a4paper', 'letterpaper', 'a5paper', 'legalpaper', 'executivepaper' and 'landscape') and font family ('sans' and 'roman')

% moderncv themes
moderncvstyle{casual} % style options are 'casual' (default), 'classic', 'banking', 'oldstyle' and 'fancy'
moderncvcolor{blue} % color options 'black', 'blue' (default), 'burgundy', 'green', 'grey', 'orange', 'purple' and 'red'
%renewcommand{familydefault}{sfdefault} % to set the default font; use 'sfdefault' for the default sans serif font, 'rmdefault' for the default roman one, or any tex font name
%nopagenumbers{} % uncomment to suppress automatic page numbering for CVs longer than one page

% character encoding
%usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % if you are not using xelatex ou lualatex, replace by the encoding you are using
%usepackage{CJKutf8} % if you need to use CJK to typeset your resume in Chinese, Japanese or Korean

% adjust the page margins
usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
%setlength{hintscolumnwidth}{3cm} % if you want to change the width of the column with the dates
%setlength{makecvheadnamewidth}{10cm} % for the 'classic' style, if you want to force the width allocated to your name and avoid line breaks. be careful though, the length is normally calculated to avoid any overlap with your personal info; use this at your own typographical risks...

% personal data
name{John}{Doe}
title{Resumé title} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the optional "type" of the phone can be "mobile" (default), "fixed" or "fax"
phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
email{john@doe.org} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
homepage{www.johndoe.com} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[linkedin]{john.doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[xing]{john_doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[twitter]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[github]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[gitlab]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[skype]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
extrainfo{additional information} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
photo[64pt][0.4pt]{picture} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; '64pt' is the height the picture must be resized to, 0.4pt is the thickness of the frame around it (put it to 0pt for no frame) and 'picture' is the name of the picture file
quote{Some quote} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted

% bibliography adjustements (only useful if you make citations in your resume, or print a list of publications using BibTeX)
% to show numerical labels in the bibliography (default is to show no labels)
%makeatletterrenewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}makeatother
renewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{[arabic{enumiv}]}
% to redefine the bibliography heading string ("Publications")
%renewcommand{refname}{Articles}

% bibliography with mutiple entries
%usepackage{multibib}
%newcites{book,misc}{{Books},{Others}}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% content
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
begin{document}
%begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn} % to typeset your resume in Chinese using CJK
%----- resume ---------------------------------------------------------
makecvtitle

section{Education}
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

section{Master thesis}
cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

section{Experience}
subsection{Vocational}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
begin{itemize}%
item Achievement 1;
item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
begin{itemize}%
item Sub-achievement (a);
item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
begin{itemize}
item Sub-sub-achievement i;
item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
end{itemize}
item Sub-achievement (c);
end{itemize}
item Achievement 3.
end{itemize}}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description line 1newline{}Description line 2}
subsection{Miscellaneous}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

section{Languages}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 2}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

section{Computer skills}
cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

section{Interests}
cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

section{Extra 1}
cvlistitem{Item 1}
cvlistitem{Item 2}
cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation when the line wraps?}

section{Extra 2}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5cite{book1}}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

section{References}
begin{cvcolumns}
cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
end{cvcolumns}

% Publications from a BibTeX file without multibib
% for numerical labels: renewcommand{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}% CONSIDER MERGING WITH PREAMBLE PART
% to redefine the heading string ("Publications"): renewcommand{refname}{Articles}
nocite{*}
bibliographystyle{plain}
bibliography{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

% Publications from a BibTeX file using the multibib package
%section{Publications}
%nocitebook{book1,book2}
%bibliographystylebook{plain}
%bibliographybook{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file
%nocitemisc{misc1,misc2,misc3}
%bibliographystylemisc{plain}
%bibliographymisc{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

clearpage
%----- letter ---------------------------------------------------------
% recipient data
recipient{Company Recruitment team}{Company, Inc.\123 somestreet\some city}
date{January 01, 1984}
opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
closing{Yours faithfully,}
enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vitae{}} % use an optional argument to use a string other than "Enclosure", or redefine enclname
makelettertitle

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis ullamcorper neque sit amet lectus facilisis sed luctus nisl iaculis. Vivamus at neque arcu, sed tempor quam. Curabitur pharetra tincidunt tincidunt. Morbi volutpat feugiat mauris, quis tempor neque vehicula volutpat. Duis tristique justo vel massa fermentum accumsan. Mauris ante elit, feugiat vestibulum tempor eget, eleifend ac ipsum. Donec scelerisque lobortis ipsum eu vestibulum. Pellentesque vel massa at felis accumsan rhoncus.

Suspendisse commodo, massa eu congue tincidunt, elit mauris pellentesque orci, cursus tempor odio nisl euismod augue. Aliquam adipiscing nibh ut odio sodales et pulvinar tortor laoreet. Mauris a accumsan ligula. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Suspendisse vulputate sem vehicula ipsum varius nec tempus dui dapibus. Phasellus et est urna, ut auctor erat. Sed tincidunt odio id odio aliquam mattis. Donec sapien nulla, feugiat eget adipiscing sit amet, lacinia ut dolor. Phasellus tincidunt, leo a fringilla consectetur, felis diam aliquam urna, vitae aliquet lectus orci nec velit. Vivamus dapibus varius blandit.

Duis sit amet magna ante, at sodales diam. Aenean consectetur porta risus et sagittis. Ut interdum, enim varius pellentesque tincidunt, magna libero sodales tortor, ut fermentum nunc metus a ante. Vivamus odio leo, tincidunt eu luctus ut, sollicitudin sit amet metus. Nunc sed orci lectus. Ut sodales magna sed velit volutpat sit amet pulvinar diam venenatis.

Albert Einstein discovered that $e=mc^2$ in 1905.

[ e=lim_{n to infty} left(1+frac{1}{n}right)^n ]

makeletterclosing

%clearpageend{CJK*} % if you are typesetting your resume in Chinese using CJK; the clearpage is required for fancyhdr to work correctly with CJK, though it kills the page numbering by making lastpage undefined
end{document}


%% end of file `template.tex'.


I get the following error:



Undefined control sequence.
gitlabsocialsymbol ->{small faGitlab


If it makes any difference I'm using VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop plugin. I think the compiler it is using is latexmk.



If I take out the line social[gitlab]{jdoe} everything works fine.



Would be much appreciated if anyone could help me sort out these issues. Happy to provide any additional info that is needed.










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I'm having problems to display the favicon for Gitlab in my moderncv project. I think it has to do with my installation of moderncv.



I'm on a Ubuntu machine and first I installed texlive-latex-extra.



After some googling I found out that the moderncv version in TeX Live is out of date. So I cloned the moderncv git repo and put it into /home/{user}/texmf/tex/latex/moderncv.



$ kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
/home/{user}/texmf


So I would think that the newer version of moderncv in my home folder has precedence. But apparently this is not the case.



When I try to compile the example template from moderncv



%% start of file `template.tex'.
%% Copyright 2006-2015 Xavier Danaux (xdanaux@gmail.com).
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c,
% available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.


documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} % possible options include font size ('10pt', '11pt' and '12pt'), paper size ('a4paper', 'letterpaper', 'a5paper', 'legalpaper', 'executivepaper' and 'landscape') and font family ('sans' and 'roman')

% moderncv themes
moderncvstyle{casual} % style options are 'casual' (default), 'classic', 'banking', 'oldstyle' and 'fancy'
moderncvcolor{blue} % color options 'black', 'blue' (default), 'burgundy', 'green', 'grey', 'orange', 'purple' and 'red'
%renewcommand{familydefault}{sfdefault} % to set the default font; use 'sfdefault' for the default sans serif font, 'rmdefault' for the default roman one, or any tex font name
%nopagenumbers{} % uncomment to suppress automatic page numbering for CVs longer than one page

% character encoding
%usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % if you are not using xelatex ou lualatex, replace by the encoding you are using
%usepackage{CJKutf8} % if you need to use CJK to typeset your resume in Chinese, Japanese or Korean

% adjust the page margins
usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
%setlength{hintscolumnwidth}{3cm} % if you want to change the width of the column with the dates
%setlength{makecvheadnamewidth}{10cm} % for the 'classic' style, if you want to force the width allocated to your name and avoid line breaks. be careful though, the length is normally calculated to avoid any overlap with your personal info; use this at your own typographical risks...

% personal data
name{John}{Doe}
title{Resumé title} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the optional "type" of the phone can be "mobile" (default), "fixed" or "fax"
phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
email{john@doe.org} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
homepage{www.johndoe.com} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[linkedin]{john.doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[xing]{john_doe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[twitter]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[github]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[gitlab]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
social[skype]{jdoe} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
extrainfo{additional information} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
photo[64pt][0.4pt]{picture} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; '64pt' is the height the picture must be resized to, 0.4pt is the thickness of the frame around it (put it to 0pt for no frame) and 'picture' is the name of the picture file
quote{Some quote} % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted

% bibliography adjustements (only useful if you make citations in your resume, or print a list of publications using BibTeX)
% to show numerical labels in the bibliography (default is to show no labels)
%makeatletterrenewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}makeatother
renewcommand*{bibliographyitemlabel}{[arabic{enumiv}]}
% to redefine the bibliography heading string ("Publications")
%renewcommand{refname}{Articles}

% bibliography with mutiple entries
%usepackage{multibib}
%newcites{book,misc}{{Books},{Others}}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% content
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
begin{document}
%begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn} % to typeset your resume in Chinese using CJK
%----- resume ---------------------------------------------------------
makecvtitle

section{Education}
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

section{Master thesis}
cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

section{Experience}
subsection{Vocational}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
begin{itemize}%
item Achievement 1;
item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
begin{itemize}%
item Sub-achievement (a);
item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
begin{itemize}
item Sub-sub-achievement i;
item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
end{itemize}
item Sub-achievement (c);
end{itemize}
item Achievement 3.
end{itemize}}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description line 1newline{}Description line 2}
subsection{Miscellaneous}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

section{Languages}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 2}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

section{Computer skills}
cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

section{Interests}
cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

section{Extra 1}
cvlistitem{Item 1}
cvlistitem{Item 2}
cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation when the line wraps?}

section{Extra 2}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5cite{book1}}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

section{References}
begin{cvcolumns}
cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
end{cvcolumns}

% Publications from a BibTeX file without multibib
% for numerical labels: renewcommand{bibliographyitemlabel}{@biblabel{arabic{enumiv}}}% CONSIDER MERGING WITH PREAMBLE PART
% to redefine the heading string ("Publications"): renewcommand{refname}{Articles}
nocite{*}
bibliographystyle{plain}
bibliography{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

% Publications from a BibTeX file using the multibib package
%section{Publications}
%nocitebook{book1,book2}
%bibliographystylebook{plain}
%bibliographybook{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file
%nocitemisc{misc1,misc2,misc3}
%bibliographystylemisc{plain}
%bibliographymisc{publications} % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

clearpage
%----- letter ---------------------------------------------------------
% recipient data
recipient{Company Recruitment team}{Company, Inc.\123 somestreet\some city}
date{January 01, 1984}
opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
closing{Yours faithfully,}
enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vitae{}} % use an optional argument to use a string other than "Enclosure", or redefine enclname
makelettertitle

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis ullamcorper neque sit amet lectus facilisis sed luctus nisl iaculis. Vivamus at neque arcu, sed tempor quam. Curabitur pharetra tincidunt tincidunt. Morbi volutpat feugiat mauris, quis tempor neque vehicula volutpat. Duis tristique justo vel massa fermentum accumsan. Mauris ante elit, feugiat vestibulum tempor eget, eleifend ac ipsum. Donec scelerisque lobortis ipsum eu vestibulum. Pellentesque vel massa at felis accumsan rhoncus.

Suspendisse commodo, massa eu congue tincidunt, elit mauris pellentesque orci, cursus tempor odio nisl euismod augue. Aliquam adipiscing nibh ut odio sodales et pulvinar tortor laoreet. Mauris a accumsan ligula. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Suspendisse vulputate sem vehicula ipsum varius nec tempus dui dapibus. Phasellus et est urna, ut auctor erat. Sed tincidunt odio id odio aliquam mattis. Donec sapien nulla, feugiat eget adipiscing sit amet, lacinia ut dolor. Phasellus tincidunt, leo a fringilla consectetur, felis diam aliquam urna, vitae aliquet lectus orci nec velit. Vivamus dapibus varius blandit.

Duis sit amet magna ante, at sodales diam. Aenean consectetur porta risus et sagittis. Ut interdum, enim varius pellentesque tincidunt, magna libero sodales tortor, ut fermentum nunc metus a ante. Vivamus odio leo, tincidunt eu luctus ut, sollicitudin sit amet metus. Nunc sed orci lectus. Ut sodales magna sed velit volutpat sit amet pulvinar diam venenatis.

Albert Einstein discovered that $e=mc^2$ in 1905.

[ e=lim_{n to infty} left(1+frac{1}{n}right)^n ]

makeletterclosing

%clearpageend{CJK*} % if you are typesetting your resume in Chinese using CJK; the clearpage is required for fancyhdr to work correctly with CJK, though it kills the page numbering by making lastpage undefined
end{document}


%% end of file `template.tex'.


I get the following error:



Undefined control sequence.
gitlabsocialsymbol ->{small faGitlab


If it makes any difference I'm using VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop plugin. I think the compiler it is using is latexmk.



If I take out the line social[gitlab]{jdoe} everything works fine.



Would be much appreciated if anyone could help me sort out these issues. Happy to provide any additional info that is needed.







moderncv fontawesome






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  • Welcome to TeX StackExchange. If you had to manually update moerncv, most likely the fontawesome package is out of date too. Sadly, manually updating fontawesome is a bit more advanced and might require even more updates of other packages. So I would recommend replacing the whole TeX Live version packaged for Ubuntu with an up-to-date version of TeX Live. See here for details how to install "vanilla" TeX Live on Ubuntu.

    – Marcel Krüger
    14 hours ago











  • Thanks for your reply! Yes I think you are right in regards to fontawesome. I was using a version from 2015. I just tried to update by downloading a package from ctan and putting the files in my local texmf folder. It does compile now with the Gitlab favicon but the icons are all wrong now and I get warnings that fonts were substitued. I guess I will try your way and install up-to-date TeX Live.

    – c_student
    14 hours ago











  • You did not tell us the version numbers of your used class moderncv and fontawesome. Some time ago there was a severe bug in fontawesome. Did you compile with pdflatex or xelatex?

    – Kurt
    2 hours ago



















  • Welcome to TeX StackExchange. If you had to manually update moerncv, most likely the fontawesome package is out of date too. Sadly, manually updating fontawesome is a bit more advanced and might require even more updates of other packages. So I would recommend replacing the whole TeX Live version packaged for Ubuntu with an up-to-date version of TeX Live. See here for details how to install "vanilla" TeX Live on Ubuntu.

    – Marcel Krüger
    14 hours ago











  • Thanks for your reply! Yes I think you are right in regards to fontawesome. I was using a version from 2015. I just tried to update by downloading a package from ctan and putting the files in my local texmf folder. It does compile now with the Gitlab favicon but the icons are all wrong now and I get warnings that fonts were substitued. I guess I will try your way and install up-to-date TeX Live.

    – c_student
    14 hours ago











  • You did not tell us the version numbers of your used class moderncv and fontawesome. Some time ago there was a severe bug in fontawesome. Did you compile with pdflatex or xelatex?

    – Kurt
    2 hours ago

















Welcome to TeX StackExchange. If you had to manually update moerncv, most likely the fontawesome package is out of date too. Sadly, manually updating fontawesome is a bit more advanced and might require even more updates of other packages. So I would recommend replacing the whole TeX Live version packaged for Ubuntu with an up-to-date version of TeX Live. See here for details how to install "vanilla" TeX Live on Ubuntu.

– Marcel Krüger
14 hours ago





Welcome to TeX StackExchange. If you had to manually update moerncv, most likely the fontawesome package is out of date too. Sadly, manually updating fontawesome is a bit more advanced and might require even more updates of other packages. So I would recommend replacing the whole TeX Live version packaged for Ubuntu with an up-to-date version of TeX Live. See here for details how to install "vanilla" TeX Live on Ubuntu.

– Marcel Krüger
14 hours ago













Thanks for your reply! Yes I think you are right in regards to fontawesome. I was using a version from 2015. I just tried to update by downloading a package from ctan and putting the files in my local texmf folder. It does compile now with the Gitlab favicon but the icons are all wrong now and I get warnings that fonts were substitued. I guess I will try your way and install up-to-date TeX Live.

– c_student
14 hours ago





Thanks for your reply! Yes I think you are right in regards to fontawesome. I was using a version from 2015. I just tried to update by downloading a package from ctan and putting the files in my local texmf folder. It does compile now with the Gitlab favicon but the icons are all wrong now and I get warnings that fonts were substitued. I guess I will try your way and install up-to-date TeX Live.

– c_student
14 hours ago













You did not tell us the version numbers of your used class moderncv and fontawesome. Some time ago there was a severe bug in fontawesome. Did you compile with pdflatex or xelatex?

– Kurt
2 hours ago





You did not tell us the version numbers of your used class moderncv and fontawesome. Some time ago there was a severe bug in fontawesome. Did you compile with pdflatex or xelatex?

– Kurt
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You did not tell us which versions of modencv and fontawesome you use.



At last ubuntu (and debian) installed an outdated version of TeX Live. Better is to use the original TeX Live you can install following this question.



If you want to try only installation of fontawesome on Ubuntu, use the command:



sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra


Make sure that the FNDB is updated and that all font maps are loaded (I do not use ubuntu, I do not know how that is done with that OS).



After installing TeX Live new you lost your manualy updated moderncv. Therefore it is better to add the needed changes to moderncv into the preamble of your cv.



Please see the following code (I marked all important code changings with <=========; Please see that I changed htpp in the links to the today used and more secure https):



documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

% moderncv themes
moderncvstyle{casual} % casual, classic, banking, oldstyle and fancy
moderncvcolor{blue}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

% makes a https hyperlink
% usage: httpslink[optional text]{link}
newcommand*{httpslink}[2]{% <=======================================
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{}}%
{href{https://#2}{#2}}%
{href{https://#2}{#1}}}

newcommand*{xingsocialsymbol} {{smallfaXing}~} % <===============
newcommand*{gitlabsocialsymbol} {{smallfaGitlab}~} % <=============
newcommand*{skypesocialsymbol} {{smallfaSkype}~} % <==============

makeatletter % <=======================================================
RenewDocumentCommand{social}{O{}O{}m}{%
ifthenelse{equal{#2}{}}%
{%
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{linkedin}}{collectionadd[linkedin]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{www.linkedin.com/in/#3}}} {}%
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{xing}} {collectionadd[xing]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.xing.com/profile/#3}}}{}%
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{twitter}} {collectionadd[twitter]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.twitter.com/#3}}} {}%
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{github}} {collectionadd[github]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.github.com/#3}}} {}%
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{gitlab}} {collectionadd[gitlab]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.gitlab.com/#3}}} {}%
ifthenelse{equal{#1}{skype}} {collectionadd[skype]{socials} {#3}} {}%
}
{collectionadd[#1]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{#2}}}}
makeatother % <========================================================


% personal data
name{John}{Doe}
title{Resumé title}
address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
email{john@doe.org}
homepage{www.johndoe.com}
social[linkedin]{john.doe}
social[xing]{john_doe} % <============================================
social[twitter]{jdoe}
social[github]{jdoe}
social[gitlab]{jdoe}
social[skype]{jdoe} % <================================================
extrainfo{additional information}
quote{Some quote}

setlength{footskip}{66pt}


begin{document}

makecvtitle

section{Education}
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution--3}{City--4}{textit{Grade}--5}{Description--6} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

section{Master thesis}
cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

section{Experience}
subsection{Vocational}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description
no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
begin{itemize}%
item Achievement 1;
item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
begin{itemize}%
item Sub-achievement (a);
item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
begin{itemize}
item Sub-sub-achievement i;
item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
end{itemize}
item Sub-achievement (c);
end{itemize}
item Achievement 3.
end{itemize}}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description
line 1newline{}Description line 2}
subsection{Miscellaneous}
cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

section{Languages}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{textbf{Language} 2}{textbf{Skill} level}{Comment}
cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

section{Computer skills}
cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

section{Interests}
cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

section{Extra 1}
cvlistitem{Item 1}
cvlistitem{Item 2}
cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore
normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation
when the line wraps?}

section{Extra 2}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5}
cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

section{References}
begin{cvcolumns}
cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
end{cvcolumns}

end{document}


and its result:



resulting footer



This is compiled with current class moderncv 2.0.0 (that one from ctan, not from the github!), current fontawesome fontawesome.sty 2016/05/15 v4.6.3.1 font awesome icons and current MiKTeX pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (MiKTeX 2.9.6960 64-bit).






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    You did not tell us which versions of modencv and fontawesome you use.



    At last ubuntu (and debian) installed an outdated version of TeX Live. Better is to use the original TeX Live you can install following this question.



    If you want to try only installation of fontawesome on Ubuntu, use the command:



    sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra


    Make sure that the FNDB is updated and that all font maps are loaded (I do not use ubuntu, I do not know how that is done with that OS).



    After installing TeX Live new you lost your manualy updated moderncv. Therefore it is better to add the needed changes to moderncv into the preamble of your cv.



    Please see the following code (I marked all important code changings with <=========; Please see that I changed htpp in the links to the today used and more secure https):



    documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

    % moderncv themes
    moderncvstyle{casual} % casual, classic, banking, oldstyle and fancy
    moderncvcolor{blue}

    usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

    usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

    % makes a https hyperlink
    % usage: httpslink[optional text]{link}
    newcommand*{httpslink}[2]{% <=======================================
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{}}%
    {href{https://#2}{#2}}%
    {href{https://#2}{#1}}}

    newcommand*{xingsocialsymbol} {{smallfaXing}~} % <===============
    newcommand*{gitlabsocialsymbol} {{smallfaGitlab}~} % <=============
    newcommand*{skypesocialsymbol} {{smallfaSkype}~} % <==============

    makeatletter % <=======================================================
    RenewDocumentCommand{social}{O{}O{}m}{%
    ifthenelse{equal{#2}{}}%
    {%
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{linkedin}}{collectionadd[linkedin]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{www.linkedin.com/in/#3}}} {}%
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{xing}} {collectionadd[xing]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.xing.com/profile/#3}}}{}%
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{twitter}} {collectionadd[twitter]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.twitter.com/#3}}} {}%
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{github}} {collectionadd[github]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.github.com/#3}}} {}%
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{gitlab}} {collectionadd[gitlab]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.gitlab.com/#3}}} {}%
    ifthenelse{equal{#1}{skype}} {collectionadd[skype]{socials} {#3}} {}%
    }
    {collectionadd[#1]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{#2}}}}
    makeatother % <========================================================


    % personal data
    name{John}{Doe}
    title{Resumé title}
    address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
    phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
    phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
    phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
    email{john@doe.org}
    homepage{www.johndoe.com}
    social[linkedin]{john.doe}
    social[xing]{john_doe} % <============================================
    social[twitter]{jdoe}
    social[github]{jdoe}
    social[gitlab]{jdoe}
    social[skype]{jdoe} % <================================================
    extrainfo{additional information}
    quote{Some quote}

    setlength{footskip}{66pt}


    begin{document}

    makecvtitle

    section{Education}
    cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution--3}{City--4}{textit{Grade}--5}{Description--6} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
    cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

    section{Master thesis}
    cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
    cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
    cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

    section{Experience}
    subsection{Vocational}
    cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description
    no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
    Detailed achievements:%
    begin{itemize}%
    item Achievement 1;
    item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
    begin{itemize}%
    item Sub-achievement (a);
    item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
    begin{itemize}
    item Sub-sub-achievement i;
    item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
    item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
    end{itemize}
    item Sub-achievement (c);
    end{itemize}
    item Achievement 3.
    end{itemize}}
    cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description
    line 1newline{}Description line 2}
    subsection{Miscellaneous}
    cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

    section{Languages}
    cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
    cvitemwithcomment{textbf{Language} 2}{textbf{Skill} level}{Comment}
    cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

    section{Computer skills}
    cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
    cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
    cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

    section{Interests}
    cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
    cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
    cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

    section{Extra 1}
    cvlistitem{Item 1}
    cvlistitem{Item 2}
    cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore
    normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation
    when the line wraps?}

    section{Extra 2}
    cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
    cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5}
    cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

    section{References}
    begin{cvcolumns}
    cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
    cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
    cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
    end{cvcolumns}

    end{document}


    and its result:



    resulting footer



    This is compiled with current class moderncv 2.0.0 (that one from ctan, not from the github!), current fontawesome fontawesome.sty 2016/05/15 v4.6.3.1 font awesome icons and current MiKTeX pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (MiKTeX 2.9.6960 64-bit).






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      You did not tell us which versions of modencv and fontawesome you use.



      At last ubuntu (and debian) installed an outdated version of TeX Live. Better is to use the original TeX Live you can install following this question.



      If you want to try only installation of fontawesome on Ubuntu, use the command:



      sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra


      Make sure that the FNDB is updated and that all font maps are loaded (I do not use ubuntu, I do not know how that is done with that OS).



      After installing TeX Live new you lost your manualy updated moderncv. Therefore it is better to add the needed changes to moderncv into the preamble of your cv.



      Please see the following code (I marked all important code changings with <=========; Please see that I changed htpp in the links to the today used and more secure https):



      documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

      % moderncv themes
      moderncvstyle{casual} % casual, classic, banking, oldstyle and fancy
      moderncvcolor{blue}

      usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

      usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

      % makes a https hyperlink
      % usage: httpslink[optional text]{link}
      newcommand*{httpslink}[2]{% <=======================================
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{}}%
      {href{https://#2}{#2}}%
      {href{https://#2}{#1}}}

      newcommand*{xingsocialsymbol} {{smallfaXing}~} % <===============
      newcommand*{gitlabsocialsymbol} {{smallfaGitlab}~} % <=============
      newcommand*{skypesocialsymbol} {{smallfaSkype}~} % <==============

      makeatletter % <=======================================================
      RenewDocumentCommand{social}{O{}O{}m}{%
      ifthenelse{equal{#2}{}}%
      {%
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{linkedin}}{collectionadd[linkedin]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{www.linkedin.com/in/#3}}} {}%
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{xing}} {collectionadd[xing]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.xing.com/profile/#3}}}{}%
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{twitter}} {collectionadd[twitter]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.twitter.com/#3}}} {}%
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{github}} {collectionadd[github]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.github.com/#3}}} {}%
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{gitlab}} {collectionadd[gitlab]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.gitlab.com/#3}}} {}%
      ifthenelse{equal{#1}{skype}} {collectionadd[skype]{socials} {#3}} {}%
      }
      {collectionadd[#1]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{#2}}}}
      makeatother % <========================================================


      % personal data
      name{John}{Doe}
      title{Resumé title}
      address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
      phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
      phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
      phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
      email{john@doe.org}
      homepage{www.johndoe.com}
      social[linkedin]{john.doe}
      social[xing]{john_doe} % <============================================
      social[twitter]{jdoe}
      social[github]{jdoe}
      social[gitlab]{jdoe}
      social[skype]{jdoe} % <================================================
      extrainfo{additional information}
      quote{Some quote}

      setlength{footskip}{66pt}


      begin{document}

      makecvtitle

      section{Education}
      cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution--3}{City--4}{textit{Grade}--5}{Description--6} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
      cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

      section{Master thesis}
      cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
      cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
      cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

      section{Experience}
      subsection{Vocational}
      cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description
      no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
      Detailed achievements:%
      begin{itemize}%
      item Achievement 1;
      item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
      begin{itemize}%
      item Sub-achievement (a);
      item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
      begin{itemize}
      item Sub-sub-achievement i;
      item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
      item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
      end{itemize}
      item Sub-achievement (c);
      end{itemize}
      item Achievement 3.
      end{itemize}}
      cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description
      line 1newline{}Description line 2}
      subsection{Miscellaneous}
      cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

      section{Languages}
      cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
      cvitemwithcomment{textbf{Language} 2}{textbf{Skill} level}{Comment}
      cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

      section{Computer skills}
      cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
      cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
      cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

      section{Interests}
      cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
      cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
      cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

      section{Extra 1}
      cvlistitem{Item 1}
      cvlistitem{Item 2}
      cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore
      normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation
      when the line wraps?}

      section{Extra 2}
      cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
      cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5}
      cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

      section{References}
      begin{cvcolumns}
      cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
      cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
      cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
      end{cvcolumns}

      end{document}


      and its result:



      resulting footer



      This is compiled with current class moderncv 2.0.0 (that one from ctan, not from the github!), current fontawesome fontawesome.sty 2016/05/15 v4.6.3.1 font awesome icons and current MiKTeX pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (MiKTeX 2.9.6960 64-bit).






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        You did not tell us which versions of modencv and fontawesome you use.



        At last ubuntu (and debian) installed an outdated version of TeX Live. Better is to use the original TeX Live you can install following this question.



        If you want to try only installation of fontawesome on Ubuntu, use the command:



        sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra


        Make sure that the FNDB is updated and that all font maps are loaded (I do not use ubuntu, I do not know how that is done with that OS).



        After installing TeX Live new you lost your manualy updated moderncv. Therefore it is better to add the needed changes to moderncv into the preamble of your cv.



        Please see the following code (I marked all important code changings with <=========; Please see that I changed htpp in the links to the today used and more secure https):



        documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

        % moderncv themes
        moderncvstyle{casual} % casual, classic, banking, oldstyle and fancy
        moderncvcolor{blue}

        usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

        usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

        % makes a https hyperlink
        % usage: httpslink[optional text]{link}
        newcommand*{httpslink}[2]{% <=======================================
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{}}%
        {href{https://#2}{#2}}%
        {href{https://#2}{#1}}}

        newcommand*{xingsocialsymbol} {{smallfaXing}~} % <===============
        newcommand*{gitlabsocialsymbol} {{smallfaGitlab}~} % <=============
        newcommand*{skypesocialsymbol} {{smallfaSkype}~} % <==============

        makeatletter % <=======================================================
        RenewDocumentCommand{social}{O{}O{}m}{%
        ifthenelse{equal{#2}{}}%
        {%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{linkedin}}{collectionadd[linkedin]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{www.linkedin.com/in/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{xing}} {collectionadd[xing]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.xing.com/profile/#3}}}{}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{twitter}} {collectionadd[twitter]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.twitter.com/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{github}} {collectionadd[github]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.github.com/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{gitlab}} {collectionadd[gitlab]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.gitlab.com/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{skype}} {collectionadd[skype]{socials} {#3}} {}%
        }
        {collectionadd[#1]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{#2}}}}
        makeatother % <========================================================


        % personal data
        name{John}{Doe}
        title{Resumé title}
        address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
        phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
        phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
        phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
        email{john@doe.org}
        homepage{www.johndoe.com}
        social[linkedin]{john.doe}
        social[xing]{john_doe} % <============================================
        social[twitter]{jdoe}
        social[github]{jdoe}
        social[gitlab]{jdoe}
        social[skype]{jdoe} % <================================================
        extrainfo{additional information}
        quote{Some quote}

        setlength{footskip}{66pt}


        begin{document}

        makecvtitle

        section{Education}
        cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution--3}{City--4}{textit{Grade}--5}{Description--6} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
        cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

        section{Master thesis}
        cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
        cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
        cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

        section{Experience}
        subsection{Vocational}
        cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description
        no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
        Detailed achievements:%
        begin{itemize}%
        item Achievement 1;
        item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
        begin{itemize}%
        item Sub-achievement (a);
        item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
        begin{itemize}
        item Sub-sub-achievement i;
        item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
        item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
        end{itemize}
        item Sub-achievement (c);
        end{itemize}
        item Achievement 3.
        end{itemize}}
        cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description
        line 1newline{}Description line 2}
        subsection{Miscellaneous}
        cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

        section{Languages}
        cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
        cvitemwithcomment{textbf{Language} 2}{textbf{Skill} level}{Comment}
        cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

        section{Computer skills}
        cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
        cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
        cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

        section{Interests}
        cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
        cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
        cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

        section{Extra 1}
        cvlistitem{Item 1}
        cvlistitem{Item 2}
        cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore
        normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation
        when the line wraps?}

        section{Extra 2}
        cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
        cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5}
        cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

        section{References}
        begin{cvcolumns}
        cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
        cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
        cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
        end{cvcolumns}

        end{document}


        and its result:



        resulting footer



        This is compiled with current class moderncv 2.0.0 (that one from ctan, not from the github!), current fontawesome fontawesome.sty 2016/05/15 v4.6.3.1 font awesome icons and current MiKTeX pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (MiKTeX 2.9.6960 64-bit).






        share|improve this answer













        You did not tell us which versions of modencv and fontawesome you use.



        At last ubuntu (and debian) installed an outdated version of TeX Live. Better is to use the original TeX Live you can install following this question.



        If you want to try only installation of fontawesome on Ubuntu, use the command:



        sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra


        Make sure that the FNDB is updated and that all font maps are loaded (I do not use ubuntu, I do not know how that is done with that OS).



        After installing TeX Live new you lost your manualy updated moderncv. Therefore it is better to add the needed changes to moderncv into the preamble of your cv.



        Please see the following code (I marked all important code changings with <=========; Please see that I changed htpp in the links to the today used and more secure https):



        documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

        % moderncv themes
        moderncvstyle{casual} % casual, classic, banking, oldstyle and fancy
        moderncvcolor{blue}

        usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

        usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

        % makes a https hyperlink
        % usage: httpslink[optional text]{link}
        newcommand*{httpslink}[2]{% <=======================================
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{}}%
        {href{https://#2}{#2}}%
        {href{https://#2}{#1}}}

        newcommand*{xingsocialsymbol} {{smallfaXing}~} % <===============
        newcommand*{gitlabsocialsymbol} {{smallfaGitlab}~} % <=============
        newcommand*{skypesocialsymbol} {{smallfaSkype}~} % <==============

        makeatletter % <=======================================================
        RenewDocumentCommand{social}{O{}O{}m}{%
        ifthenelse{equal{#2}{}}%
        {%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{linkedin}}{collectionadd[linkedin]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{www.linkedin.com/in/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{xing}} {collectionadd[xing]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.xing.com/profile/#3}}}{}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{twitter}} {collectionadd[twitter]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.twitter.com/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{github}} {collectionadd[github]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.github.com/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{gitlab}} {collectionadd[gitlab]{socials} {protecthttpslink[#3]{www.gitlab.com/#3}}} {}%
        ifthenelse{equal{#1}{skype}} {collectionadd[skype]{socials} {#3}} {}%
        }
        {collectionadd[#1]{socials}{protecthttpslink[#3]{#2}}}}
        makeatother % <========================================================


        % personal data
        name{John}{Doe}
        title{Resumé title}
        address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
        phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
        phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
        phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
        email{john@doe.org}
        homepage{www.johndoe.com}
        social[linkedin]{john.doe}
        social[xing]{john_doe} % <============================================
        social[twitter]{jdoe}
        social[github]{jdoe}
        social[gitlab]{jdoe}
        social[skype]{jdoe} % <================================================
        extrainfo{additional information}
        quote{Some quote}

        setlength{footskip}{66pt}


        begin{document}

        makecvtitle

        section{Education}
        cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution--3}{City--4}{textit{Grade}--5}{Description--6} % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
        cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{textit{Grade}}{Description}

        section{Master thesis}
        cvitem{title}{emph{Title}}
        cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
        cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

        section{Experience}
        subsection{Vocational}
        cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description
        no longer than 1--2 lines.newline{}%
        Detailed achievements:%
        begin{itemize}%
        item Achievement 1;
        item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
        begin{itemize}%
        item Sub-achievement (a);
        item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
        begin{itemize}
        item Sub-sub-achievement i;
        item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
        item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
        end{itemize}
        item Sub-achievement (c);
        end{itemize}
        item Achievement 3.
        end{itemize}}
        cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description
        line 1newline{}Description line 2}
        subsection{Miscellaneous}
        cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

        section{Languages}
        cvitemwithcomment{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
        cvitemwithcomment{textbf{Language} 2}{textbf{Skill} level}{Comment}
        cvitemwithcomment{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

        section{Computer skills}
        cvdoubleitem{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
        cvdoubleitem{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
        cvdoubleitem{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

        section{Interests}
        cvitem{hobby 1}{Description}
        cvitem{hobby 2}{Description}
        cvitem{hobby 3}{Description}

        section{Extra 1}
        cvlistitem{Item 1}
        cvlistitem{Item 2}
        cvlistitem{Item 3. This item is particularly long and therefore
        normally spans over several lines. Did you notice the indentation
        when the line wraps?}

        section{Extra 2}
        cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
        cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5}
        cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{Item 6. Like item 3 in the single column list before, this item is particularly long to wrap over several lines.}

        section{References}
        begin{cvcolumns}
        cvcolumn{Category 1}{begin{itemize}item Person 1item Person 2item Person 3end{itemize}}
        cvcolumn{Category 2}{Amongst others:begin{itemize}item Person 1, anditem Person 2end{itemize}(more upon request)}
        cvcolumn[0.5]{All the rest & some more}{textit{That} person, and textbf{those} also (all available upon request).}
        end{cvcolumns}

        end{document}


        and its result:



        resulting footer



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