How To Install qpdf on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf on CentOS 7.
What is qpdf
QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.
We can use yum or dnf to install qpdf on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qpdf.
Install qpdf on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install qpdf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qpdf
Install qpdf 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 qpdf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qpdf
How To Uninstall qpdf on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the qpdf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qpdf
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
