How To Install impressive on Fedora 34

impressive is A program that displays presentation slides

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive on Fedora 34.

What is impressive

Impressive is a program that displays presentation slides. But unlike OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar applications, it does so with style. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided for the sake of eye candy, but in addition to this, Impressive offers some unique tools that are really useful for presentations.

We can use yum or dnf to install impressive on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install impressive.

Install impressive on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install impressive using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install impressive

Install impressive on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install impressive using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install impressive

How To Uninstall impressive on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the impressive package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove impressive

impressive Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/impressive
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/impressive.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/impressive.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/impressive.py
/usr/share/doc/impressive
/usr/share/doc/impressive/changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/impressive/demo.pdf
/usr/share/doc/impressive/impressive.html
/usr/share/doc/impressive/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/impressive.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.