Latex - Installing TexLive vanilla (ubuntu)

Great instructions can be found here:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/

Updating via texlive manager (option -gui available)

tlmgr 

Latex Beamer - package beamercolor

Manual.
You can download the .sty file: here BeamerColor.sty
create a folder in your latex file directory

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

the path can differ from the path above (e.g. if you use TeTeX).
copy the example.sty file in this directory

cp /home/me/pathtopackage/example.sty /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

run

sudo mktexlsr

add the line \usepackage{example} to you document

Latex Beamer - progressbar Beamer theme download

Deb-package here

source here

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