How To Install poppler on Fedora 34

poppler is PDF rendering library PDF rendering library

Introduction

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

What is `poppler`

poppler is a PDF rendering library. poppler 21.01.0 7.fc34 x86_64 1.1 M poppler-21.01.0-7.fc34.src.rpm updates PDF rendering library http (GPLv2 or GPLv3) and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and MIT poppler is a PDF rendering library.

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

Install poppler 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 poppler using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install poppler

Install poppler 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 poppler using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poppler

How To Uninstall poppler on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove poppler

poppler Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/3730da307b3ea84979ea676c823e9052ae878d
/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.106
/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.106.0.0
/usr/share/doc/poppler
/usr/share/doc/poppler/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/poppler
/usr/share/licenses/poppler/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/3869fcad0ba286768b4b0347ee55803c66764f
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.106
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.106.0.0
/usr/share/doc/poppler
/usr/share/doc/poppler/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/poppler
/usr/share/licenses/poppler/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/254f5311382cdb20194531140b4593982f69b6
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.106
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.106.0.0
/usr/share/doc/poppler
/usr/share/doc/poppler/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/poppler
/usr/share/licenses/poppler/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/6ca4efa26ace8aaab63ede1d143bb5809b8e00
/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.106
/usr/lib64/libpoppler.so.106.0.0
/usr/share/doc/poppler
/usr/share/doc/poppler/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/poppler
/usr/share/licenses/poppler/COPYING

References

[poppler website](http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ http://poppler.freedesktop.org/)

Summary

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