How To Install pdfcrack on Fedora 34

pdfcrack is A Password Recovery Tool for PDF files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfcrack on Fedora 34.

What is pdfcrack

PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. It is small, command line driven without external dependencies.

We can use yum or dnf to install pdfcrack on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pdfcrack.

Install pdfcrack on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install pdfcrack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pdfcrack

Install pdfcrack on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install pdfcrack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pdfcrack

How To Uninstall pdfcrack on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the pdfcrack package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pdfcrack

pdfcrack Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pdfcrack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/3d48b7dc88bc6d9b869ad6ec22dfcea383d9ba
/usr/share/doc/pdfcrack
/usr/share/doc/pdfcrack/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pdfcrack/README
/usr/share/doc/pdfcrack/changelog
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfcrack.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfcrack on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.