How To Install preflight on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install preflight on Fedora 34.
What is preflight
The Apache Preflight library is an open source Java tool that implements a parser compliant with the ISO-19005 (PDF/A) specification. Preflight is a subproject of Apache PDFBox.
We can use yum or dnf to install preflight on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install preflight.
Install preflight 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 preflight using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install preflight
Install preflight 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 preflight using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install preflight
How To Uninstall preflight on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the preflight package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove preflight
preflight Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/preflight
/usr/share/doc/preflight/README.txt
/usr/share/java/preflight.jar
/usr/share/maven-metadata/pdfbox-preflight.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/preflight.pom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install preflight on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.