How To Install poppler-utils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils on Debian 9.
What is poppler-utils
poppler-utils is:
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf PDF viewer.
This package contains command line utilities (based on Poppler) for getting information of PDF documents, convert them to other formats, or manipulate them:
- pdfdetach – lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
- pdffonts – font analyzer
- pdfimages – image extractor
- pdfinfo – document information
- pdfseparate – page extraction tool
- pdfsig – verifies digital signatures
- pdftocairo – PDF to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG converter using Cairo
- pdftohtml – PDF to HTML converter
- pdftoppm – PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
- pdftops – PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
- pdftotext – text extraction
- pdfunite – document merging tool
There are three methods to install poppler-utils on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install poppler-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poppler-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poppler-utils
Install poppler-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poppler-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poppler-utils
Install poppler-utils 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install poppler-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poppler-utils
How To Uninstall poppler-utils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the poppler-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poppler-utils
Uninstall poppler-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poppler-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poppler-utils
Remove poppler-utils Configurations and Data
To remove poppler-utils configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poppler-utils
Remove poppler-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poppler-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poppler-utils
Dependencies
poppler-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.