How To Install zathura-pdf-poppler on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zathura-pdf-poppler on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is zathura-pdf-poppler
zathura-pdf-poppler is:
zathura is a document viewer with a minimalistic and space saving interface. It offers a vim-like experience and has a focus on keyboard interaction. The key bindings, commands and most other settings can be customized.
Some of the features are:
- bookmarking pages
- printing the whole document or specific pages
- following links
- searching in the document
- browsing the document index
- SyncTex forward and backward synchronization
This package contains zathura’s PDF plugin.
There are three methods to install zathura-pdf-poppler 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 zathura-pdf-poppler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zathura-pdf-poppler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zathura-pdf-poppler
Install zathura-pdf-poppler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zathura-pdf-poppler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zathura-pdf-poppler
Install zathura-pdf-poppler 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 zathura-pdf-poppler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zathura-pdf-poppler
How To Uninstall zathura-pdf-poppler on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the zathura-pdf-poppler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zathura-pdf-poppler
Uninstall zathura-pdf-poppler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zathura-pdf-poppler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zathura-pdf-poppler
Remove zathura-pdf-poppler Configurations and Data
To remove zathura-pdf-poppler configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zathura-pdf-poppler
Remove zathura-pdf-poppler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zathura-pdf-poppler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zathura-pdf-poppler
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zathura-pdf-poppler package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
