How To Install xpdf 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 xpdf on Ubuntu.
What is xpdf
xpdf is:
xpdf is a light-weight open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files (also called ‘Adobe Acrobat’ or ‘Acrobat’ files). This is just the xpdf viewer client; various command-line pdf tools are now provided via the poppler-utils package.
Debian’s xpdf is a fork of Xpdf version 3, modified to use the Poppler PDF rendering library but keeping the Motif toolkit, and nowadays maintained as the xpopple project.
There are three methods to install xpdf 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 xpdf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xpdf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xpdf
Install xpdf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xpdf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xpdf
Install xpdf 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 xpdf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xpdf
How To Uninstall xpdf on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the xpdf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xpdf
Uninstall xpdf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xpdf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xpdf
Remove xpdf Configurations and Data
To remove xpdf configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xpdf
Remove xpdf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xpdf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xpdf
Dependencies
xpdf have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpdf package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.