How To Install qpdf on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf in Fedora 36. qpdf is Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf on Fedora 36.

What is `qpdf`

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

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

Install qpdf 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 qpdf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qpdf

Install qpdf 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 qpdf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qpdf

How To Uninstall qpdf on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove qpdf

qpdf Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fix-qdf
/usr/bin/qpdf
/usr/bin/zlib-flate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/8f38aa60ffa0b455ba9dbf1c8cb98dccf546e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/cf43484cecf75ea143302afb1351f72159ac8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/9b72bff738db71f0f53a7e6e9fc04b52da5083
/usr/share/man/man1/fix-qdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qpdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zlib-flate.1.gz

References

qpdf website

Summary

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