How To Install pstotext on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pstotext
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pstotext
pstotext is:
pstotext extracts text (in the ISO 8859-1 character set) from a PostScript or PDF (Portable Document Format) file. Thus, pstotext is similar to the ps2ascii program that comes with ghostscript. The output of pstotext is however better than that of ps2ascii, because pstotext deals better with punctuation and ligatures.
There are three methods to install pstotext
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pstotext Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pstotext
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pstotext
Install pstotext Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pstotext
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pstotext
Install pstotext 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pstotext
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pstotext
How To Uninstall pstotext on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pstotext
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pstotext
Uninstall pstotext And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pstotext
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pstotext
Remove pstotext Configurations and Data
To remove pstotext
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pstotext
Remove pstotext configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pstotext
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pstotext
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pstotext
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.