How To Install pdfposter on Fedora 34
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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.