How To Install poppler-utils on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils on Ubuntu.

What is `poppler-utils`

poppler-utils is:

Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf PDF viewer.

This package contains command line utilities (based on Poppler) for getting information of PDF documents, convert them to other formats, or manipulate them:

pdfdetach – lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
pdffonts – font analyzer
pdfimages – image extractor
pdfinfo – document information
pdfseparate – page extraction tool
pdfsig – verifies digital signatures
pdftocairo – PDF to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG converter using Cairo
pdftohtml – PDF to HTML converter
pdftoppm – PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
pdftops – PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
pdftotext – text extraction
pdfunite – document merging tool

There are three methods to install poppler-utils on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install poppler-utils Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install poppler-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install poppler-utils

Install poppler-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install poppler-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install poppler-utils

Install poppler-utils Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install poppler-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install poppler-utils

How To Uninstall poppler-utils on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the poppler-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove poppler-utils

Uninstall poppler-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall poppler-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove poppler-utils

Remove poppler-utils Configurations and Data

To remove poppler-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge poppler-utils

Remove poppler-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove poppler-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poppler-utils

Dependencies

poppler-utils have the following dependencies:

References

poppler-utils website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.