How To Install pdfminer-data on Debian 11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfminer-data on Debian 11.

What is pdfminer-data

pdfminer-data is:

PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents, which focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data.

This package contains the encoding data needed to read some PDF documents in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages.

There are three methods to install pdfminer-data 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 pdfminer-data Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pdfminer-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pdfminer-data

Install pdfminer-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pdfminer-data using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pdfminer-data

Install pdfminer-data 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 pdfminer-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pdfminer-data

How To Uninstall pdfminer-data on Debian 11

To uninstall only the pdfminer-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pdfminer-data

Uninstall pdfminer-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pdfminer-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pdfminer-data

Remove pdfminer-data Configurations and Data

To remove pdfminer-data configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pdfminer-data

Remove pdfminer-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pdfminer-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pdfminer-data

Dependencies

pdfminer-data have the following dependencies:

References

• pdfminer-data website
• pdfminer-data on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfminer-data package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.