../../texmf-dist/, ../../texmf-local/, and ../../texmf-var/. Copied the
latest beamer version to ../../texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/.
The recommended and most easy way would have been to simply update to
the newest texlive from SBo.
Is beamer coming with texlive really too old([2017/08/22
On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
I can do this and restore from a backup if necessary.
I removed /usr/share/texmf/ and left ../../texmf-config/,
../../texmf-dist/, ../../texmf-local/, and ../../texmf-var/. Copied the
latest beamer version to ../../texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/.