How To Install pdfminer-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfminer-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfminer-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
