How To Install qpdf on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf on Rocky Linux 8. qpdf is Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qpdf.

Install qpdf on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install qpdf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qpdf

Install qpdf on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install qpdf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qpdf

How To Uninstall qpdf on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the qpdf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qpdf

qpdf Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fix-qdf
/usr/bin/qpdf
/usr/bin/zlib-flate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/96dd1a8f690c9db8ed883f36c8f151c69c3a47
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/ce50759153a818ed21c25b161a7c81ecc4063a
/usr/share/man/man1/fix-qdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qpdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zlib-flate.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qpdf on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.