How To Install pdfposter on Fedora 34

pdfposter is Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages

Introduction

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

What is pdfposter

Pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.

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

Install pdfposter 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 pdfposter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pdfposter

Install pdfposter 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 pdfposter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pdfposter

How To Uninstall pdfposter on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pdfposter

pdfposter Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pdfposter
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9-nspkg.pth
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.9.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/cmd.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/cmd.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/cmd.py
/usr/share/doc/pdfposter
/usr/share/doc/pdfposter/README.txt

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Summary

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