How To Install texlive-beamerposter on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-beamerposter in Fedora 36. texlive-beamerposter is Extend beamer and a0poster for custom sized posters

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-beamerposter on Fedora 36.

What is `texlive-beamerposter`

The package enables the user to use beamer style operations on a canvas of the sizes provided by a0poster; font scaling is available (using packages such as type1cm if necessary). In addition, the package allows the user to benefit from the nice colour box handling and alignment provided by the beamer class (for example, with rounded corners and shadows). Good looking posters may be created very rapidly. Features include fonts using the fp and type1cm packages; posters in A-series sizes, and custom sizes like double A0 are possible; still applicable to custom beamer slides, e.g. 16 screen (i.e. 1.78 aspect ratio); orientation may be portrait or landscape; a ‘debug mode’ is provided.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-beamerposter on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-beamerposter.

Install texlive-beamerposter 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 texlive-beamerposter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-beamerposter

Install texlive-beamerposter 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 texlive-beamerposter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-beamerposter

How To Uninstall texlive-beamerposter on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-beamerposter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-beamerposter

texlive-beamerposter Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-beamerposter
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-beamerposter/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerposter.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerthemeAachen.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerthemeI6dv.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerthemeI6pd.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerthemeI6pd2.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerthemeI6td.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamerposter/beamerthemeZH.sty

References

texlive-beamerposter website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-beamerposter on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).