How To Install pdfposter on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter in Fedora 36. 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 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pdfposter.

Install pdfposter on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install pdfposter

Install pdfposter on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove pdfposter

pdfposter Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/pdfposter
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10-nspkg.pth
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools.pdfposter-0.7.post1-py3.10.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/cmd.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pdftools/pdfposter/__pycache__/cmd.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).