How To Install pdfgrep on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfgrep on Fedora 34.
What is pdfgrep
Pdfgrep is a tool, that works similar to grep, to search text in PDF files. It tries to be compatible with GNU grep, thus many of the favorite GNU grep options are supported. Pdfgrep can search many PDFs at once, even recursively in directories. It supports regular expressions (POSIX and PCRE), provides colored output and finally also support for password protected PDF files.
We can use yum or dnf to install pdfgrep on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pdfgrep.
Install pdfgrep 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 pdfgrep using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pdfgrep
Install pdfgrep 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 pdfgrep using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pdfgrep
How To Uninstall pdfgrep on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pdfgrep package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pdfgrep
pdfgrep Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pdfgrep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/9b24501d168f61a345e5928a653162b0a62621
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pdfgrep
/usr/share/doc/pdfgrep
/usr/share/doc/pdfgrep/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pdfgrep/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/pdfgrep/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pdfgrep
/usr/share/licenses/pdfgrep/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pdfgrep
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfgrep on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.