How To Install shrinkpdf on Fedora 34

shrinkpdf is Simple wrapper around Ghostscript to shrink PDFs

Introduction

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

What is shrinkpdf

A simple wrapper around Ghostscript to shrink PDFs (as in reduce file size) under Linux. The script feeds a PDF through Ghostscript, which performs lossy recompression by such methods as downsampling the images to 72 DPI. The result should be (but not always is) a much smaller file.

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

Install shrinkpdf 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 shrinkpdf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shrinkpdf

Install shrinkpdf 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 shrinkpdf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shrinkpdf

How To Uninstall shrinkpdf on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove shrinkpdf

shrinkpdf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/shrinkpdf

References

Summary

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