How To Install texlive-sciposter on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sciposter in Fedora 36. texlive-sciposter is Make posters of ISO A3 size and larger

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-sciposter`

This collection of files contains LaTeX packages for posters of ISO A3 size and larger (ISO A0 is the default size). American paper sizes and custom paper are supported. In particular, sciposter.cls defines a document class which allows cutting and pasting most of an article to a poster without any editing (save reducing the size) – see the manual. Sciposter does work for LaTeX, not just pdfLaTeX. However, xdvi produces strange results, though a recent version of dvips does create good ps- files from the dvi files. Also note that logos must either be put in the current working directory or in the directories of your LaTeX distribution. For some reason graphicspath settings are ignored.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-sciposter

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-sciposter

How To Uninstall texlive-sciposter on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-sciposter

texlive-sciposter Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sciposter
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sciposter/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperb0.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperb1.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperb2.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperb3.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/papercustom.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperra0.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperra1.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/paperra2.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sciposter/sciposter.cls

References

texlive-sciposter website

Summary

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