Install poppler-utils on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
Learn how to install poppler-utils with the command sudo apt-get install poppler-utils on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of poppler-utils:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: poppler-utils
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
Package Details | |
| Package: | poppler-utils |
| Version: | 0.18.4-1ubuntu3.2 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ |
| Description: | PDF utilities (based on Poppler) 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: * pdffonts -- font analyzer * pdfimages -- image extractor * pdfinfo -- document information * pdfseparate -- page extraction tool * 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 Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | utils |
How to install poppler-utils on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If poppler-utils is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L poppler-utils' will give followin error.
Installing poppler-utils:
After system update use the following command to install poppler-utils:
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove poppler-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the poppler-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the poppler-utils following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove poppler-utils
Following command is used to remove the poppler-utils package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove poppler-utils
This will remove poppler-utils and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing poppler-utils with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge poppler-utils
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove poppler-utils
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with poppler-utils package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.