How To Install poppler on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler on CentOS 7.
What is poppler
Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.
We can use yum or dnf to install poppler on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poppler.
Install poppler on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install poppler using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install poppler
Install poppler 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install poppler using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install poppler
How To Uninstall poppler on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the poppler package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove poppler
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
