How To Install libhpdf-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhpdf-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libhpdf-dev
libhpdf-dev is:
Haru is a free, cross platform, open-source C library for generating PDF files. It supports the following features:
- Generation of PDF files with lines, text and images.
- Outlines, text and link annotations.
- Document compression using deflate-decode.
- Embedded PNG and Jpeg images.
- Embedded Type1 and TrueType fonts.
- Creation of encrypted PDF files.
- Usage of various character sets (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI8-R).
- Support for CJK fonts and encodings. This package contains the header files for developing with libharu.
There are three methods to install libhpdf-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libhpdf-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhpdf-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhpdf-dev
Install libhpdf-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhpdf-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhpdf-dev
Install libhpdf-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libhpdf-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhpdf-dev
How To Uninstall libhpdf-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libhpdf-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhpdf-dev
Uninstall libhpdf-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhpdf-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhpdf-dev
Remove libhpdf-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libhpdf-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhpdf-dev
Remove libhpdf-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhpdf-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhpdf-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhpdf-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.