How To Install pdfposter on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter on Kali Linux. pdfposter is scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter on Kali Linux.

What is pdfposter

pdfposter is:

Pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.

This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. :-) Indeed pdfposter was inspired by poster. For more information please refer to the manpage or visit the project homepage

There are three methods to install pdfposter 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 pdfposter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pdfposter

Install pdfposter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pdfposter using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pdfposter

Install pdfposter 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install pdfposter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pdfposter

How To Uninstall pdfposter on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pdfposter package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pdfposter

Uninstall pdfposter And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pdfposter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pdfposter

Remove pdfposter Configurations and Data

To remove pdfposter configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pdfposter

Remove pdfposter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pdfposter

Dependencies

pdfposter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.