How To Install pdfposter on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pdfposter
pdfposter is:
Pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.
This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. :-) Indeed pdfposter was inspired by poster. For more information please refer to the manpage or visit the project homepage
There are three methods to install pdfposter on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pdfposter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pdfposter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pdfposter
Install pdfposter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pdfposter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pdfposter
Install pdfposter 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 pdfposter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pdfposter
How To Uninstall pdfposter on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pdfposter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pdfposter
Uninstall pdfposter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pdfposter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pdfposter
Remove pdfposter Configurations and Data
To remove pdfposter configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pdfposter
Remove pdfposter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pdfposter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pdfposter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdfposter package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
