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HOWTO: INSTALL THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW BEAMER THEME

Daniel Williams made a beamer theme for complying with the University of Glasgow's branding guidelines (thanks Daniel!). A demo slide set for the theme is available here.

Note that I'm using TeXstudio in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

1. First clone the glasgow-theme GitHub repository to a folder on the local computer,
   
   git clone https://github.com/transientlunatic/glasgow-theme


2. Install the theme on your computer with
   
   cd glasgow-theme
   make install
   
   Note: To retrieve the UofG logo files during installation, you need to either be on campus, or connected to a campus computer via VPN.
3. In TeXstudio, go to Options > Configure TeXstudio...
4. Under the Build options, change Default Compiler to LuaLaTeX, and click OK.
5. To the preamble of your LaTeX beamer .tex file, add
   
   \usetheme{glasgow}
   
   and compile with TeXstudio.
6. If some of the style files (for example, luaotfload.sty) are not found on the system, it may help to install the full LaTeX package first. From the command line, use
   
   sudo apt install texlive-full