How To Install mupdf-tools on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mupdf-tools on Debian 11.
What is mupdf-tools
mupdf-tools is:
MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. It also reads XPS, OpenXPS and ePub documents.
This package contains command line tools using the MuPDF library:
- mutool - tool for clean, extract, inspect PDF documents and render PDF/XPS/CBZ documents.
There are three methods to install mupdf-tools on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mupdf-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mupdf-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mupdf-tools
Install mupdf-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mupdf-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mupdf-tools
Install mupdf-tools 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mupdf-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mupdf-tools
How To Uninstall mupdf-tools on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mupdf-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mupdf-tools
Uninstall mupdf-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mupdf-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mupdf-tools
Remove mupdf-tools Configurations and Data
To remove mupdf-tools configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mupdf-tools
Remove mupdf-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mupdf-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mupdf-tools
Dependencies
mupdf-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mupdf-tools package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
