How To Install poppler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. poppler.x86_64 is PDF rendering library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `poppler.x86_64`

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

We can use yum to install poppler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poppler.x86_64.

Install poppler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install poppler.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poppler.x86_64

How To Uninstall poppler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the poppler.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove poppler.x86_64

poppler.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.46
/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.46.0.0
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.26.5
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.26.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.26.5/README

References

poppler.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.