How To Install poppler-utils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils on CentOS 7.
What is poppler-utils
Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. This utils package installs a number of command line tools for converting PDF files to a number of other formats.
We can use yum or dnf to install poppler-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poppler-utils.
Install poppler-utils 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-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install poppler-utils
Install poppler-utils 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-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install poppler-utils
How To Uninstall poppler-utils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the poppler-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove poppler-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
