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I want to update only beamer as I have beamer.cls 2012/10/15 development version 3.24. I fear when updating TeXlive to have problems when compiling other tex files. What can I do to just update beamer? Thank you.

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    As beamer loads a large number of files behind the scenes, you may well run into dependency hell trying to 'only' update beamer. More importantly: will you truly never update your TeX installation? That doesn't seem wise either. Rather, if you are really worried about long-term viability of your files, it is probably better to make use of things like the snapshot package and/or arlatex. (I wrote an answer about how to do this once.) – jon Feb 03 '17 at 03:30
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    http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73016/how-do-i-install-an-individual-package-on-a-linux-system covers in method 3 the general approach: download the beamer files and place them in your local tree. Does that help? – Joseph Wright Feb 03 '17 at 09:27
  • I have the problem posted here [http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/351729/beamerreduce-space-in-the-top-and-the-bottom-header-of-the-warsaw-template?noredirect=1#comment864266_351729] and updating beamer was suggested as a solution if I can solve it without updating beamer it will be the best for me – amandana Feb 03 '17 at 09:27
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    @jon There have been no changes in beamer over the time period concerned that are linked to dependencies: beamer does load other packages but is pretty conservative in using their features. – Joseph Wright Feb 03 '17 at 09:28
  • @JosephWright I downloaded the beamer package from [https://github.com/josephwright/beamer] but I don't know how to install it in my ubuntu 14.04 – amandana Feb 03 '17 at 09:35
  • @amandana So you are using Linux: which part of the general instructions was unclear? You need to install into ~/texmf. (BTW, I would recommend getting the beamer release version from CTAN rather than a random development version from GitHub!) – Joseph Wright Feb 03 '17 at 09:39
  • @JosephWright I don't understand how to install it :the instruction to write in the terminal. Sorry for my ignorance :( When i go to the ctan to download beamer it gives the link above . sorry again and thank you – amandana Feb 03 '17 at 09:59
  • I run LTS versions of ubuntu as well, and have been through this. I suggest that you uninstall the old version of LaTeX and reinstall the latest TeX Live. It will probably save you time in the long run, especially if anything you do requires pgf/tikz – Chris H Feb 03 '17 at 10:12
  • @ChrisH does updating latex alter my other files (dependencies ,...?) thank you – amandana Feb 03 '17 at 10:16
  • @amandana I don't believe LaTeX has any external dependencies as such. There are scripts that require (e.g.) perl but these aren't prgrammed in as dependencies and any version of perl would do. – Chris H Feb 03 '17 at 10:56
  • @ChrisH -- I think (but am not certain) what's amandana is worried about is that the LaTeX packages the .tex files load will have changed and this will impact on the resulting PDF (or PS, etc.). Generally, the answer is 'you'll probably be fine', but it is impossible to say a priori for all files for all times. The best LaTeX solution (in my opinion) for absolute stability is to use snapshot and arlatex (beamer docs will be quite large, however). Or go the Knuth route, of course. – jon Feb 04 '17 at 15:07

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