How To Install mupdf-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mupdf-tools on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mupdf-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mupdf-toolsInstall mupdf-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mupdf-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mupdf-toolsInstall mupdf-tools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mupdf-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mupdf-toolsHow To Uninstall mupdf-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mupdf-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mupdf-toolsUninstall mupdf-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mupdf-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mupdf-toolsRemove mupdf-tools Configurations and Data
To remove mupdf-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mupdf-toolsRemove 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-toolsDependencies
mupdf-tools have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mupdf-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.