How To Install poster on Fedora 34

poster is Scales PostScript images to span multiple pages

Introduction

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

What is poster

Poster scales PostScript images to a larger size, and prints them on larger media and/or tiles them to print on multiple sheets.

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

Install poster 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 poster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install poster

Install poster 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 poster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poster

How To Uninstall poster on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove poster

poster Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/poster
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/3e579b13e13e55c00e0f7d6cef0c5e09ab1f5c
/usr/share/doc/poster
/usr/share/doc/poster/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/poster/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/poster/README
/usr/share/doc/poster/manual.ps
/usr/share/man/man1/poster.1.gz

References

Summary

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