How To Install zathura-pdf-poppler 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 zathura-pdf-poppler on Ubuntu.

What is `zathura-pdf-poppler`

zathura-pdf-poppler is:

zathura is a document viewer with a minimalistic and space saving interface. It offers a vim-like experience and has a focus on keyboard interaction. The key bindings, commands and most other settings can be customized.

Some of the features are:

bookmarking pages
printing the whole document or specific pages
following links
searching in the document
browsing the document index
SyncTex forward and backward synchronization

This package contains zathura’s PDF plugin.

There are three methods to install zathura-pdf-poppler 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 zathura-pdf-poppler Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zathura-pdf-poppler

Install zathura-pdf-poppler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zathura-pdf-poppler

Install zathura-pdf-poppler 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 zathura-pdf-poppler using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zathura-pdf-poppler

How To Uninstall zathura-pdf-poppler on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove zathura-pdf-poppler

Uninstall zathura-pdf-poppler And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zathura-pdf-poppler

Remove zathura-pdf-poppler Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge zathura-pdf-poppler

Remove zathura-pdf-poppler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zathura-pdf-poppler

Dependencies

zathura-pdf-poppler have the following dependencies:

References

zathura-pdf-poppler website

Summary

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