How To Install xpdf on Debian 12

Learn how to install xpdf on Debian 12 with this tutorial. xpdf is Motif-based PDF reader using the Poppler library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xpdf on Debian 12.

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 Debian 12. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 12

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 Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xpdf

Remove xpdf Configurations and Data

To remove xpdf configuration and data from Debian 12 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 Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.