How To Install pdf-stapler on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdf-stapler in Fedora 36. pdf-stapler is Tool for manipulating PDF documents from the command line

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdf-stapler on Fedora 36.

What is `pdf-stapler`

pdf-stapler is the Fedora package for stapler, the opensource python project which provides a commandline tool that staples, deletes, concatenates and shuffles documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF). It is an alternative to PDFtk. From the project git page Philip Stark found pypdf, a PDF library written in pure Python. He couldn’t find a tool which actually used the library, so he started writing his own. This version of stapler is Fred Wenzel’s fork of the project, with a completely refactored source code, tests, and added functionality.

We can use yum or dnf to install pdf-stapler on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pdf-stapler.

Install pdf-stapler on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install pdf-stapler

Install pdf-stapler on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pdf-stapler using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pdf-stapler

How To Uninstall pdf-stapler on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the pdf-stapler package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pdf-stapler

pdf-stapler Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/pdf-stapler
/usr/share/doc/pdf-stapler
/usr/share/doc/pdf-stapler/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/pdf-stapler
/usr/share/licenses/pdf-stapler/LICENSE

References

pdf-stapler website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdf-stapler on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).