Btukfyl

I'm trying to compile my latex presentation (github-link) on CentOS 7. It worked on arch linux before. I tried to install texlive via

sudo yum install texlive*

That didn't give me all files I needed, so I downloaded missing files from ctan.org and put them in a directory ~/texmf/tex/latex/ . I also confirmed with kpsewhich that these files will be used.

When trying to compile with pdflatex presentation.tex I get a lot of errors pointing to biblatex:

...

(/home/me/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex.sty



LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on input line 37, version

               `2018/01/30' of package pdftexcmds,

               but only version

               `2011/11/29 v0.20 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)'

               is available.



(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty))

(/home/me/texmf/tex/latex/logreq.sty

(/home/me/texmf/tex/latex/logreq.def))

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)

! Missing endcsname inserted.

<to be read again> 

                   blx@datamodel@constant@optiondatatypes 

l.6388 ...odel@constant@optiondatatypesendcsname}



? 

Not sure if the warning is relevant.
I don't think there is something wrong with the biblatex.sty. So why do I keep getting those errors and how can I install a working texlive in CentOS without downloading packages from ctan separately?

Another error I got pointed to my own code. I can avoid that by commenting lines out, but this code looks ok to me, too, and as I said: It did work on arch linux:

if@noSectionSlideelse%

  AtBeginSection{

    ifbeamer@inframe

      sectionpage

    else

      frame[plain,c]{sectionpage}

    fi

  }

fi

leads to

 ! Undefined control sequence.

l.107 if@noSectionSlide

which again makes me think that there is something wrong with the texlive installation and that's frustrating.