How To Install podofo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install podofo
on CentOS 7.
What is podofo
PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format). A few tools to work with PDF files are already included in the PoDoFo package. The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library which includes classes to parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory. The changes can be written back to disk easily. The parser can also be used to extract information from a PDF file (for example the parser could be used in a PDF viewer). Besides parsing PoDoFo includes also very simple classes to create your own PDF files. All classes are documented so it is easy to start writing your own application using PoDoFo.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install podofo
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install podofo.
Install podofo on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install podofo
using yum
by running the following command:
Install podofo on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install podofo
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall podofo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the podofo
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install podofo
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.