4/29/2023 0 Comments Install pdfinfoWhen it's done, you can use sudo make install but even better, you can use checkinstall to make this installation known to dpkg (yay!) so: sudo apt install checkinstall If it exits without errors you can run: make If that doesn't work, try searching online for the error message. The errors might be illuminating eg 'thing-you-need not found' in which case you can try sudo apt install thing-you-need and try again. Here you will get errors if I missed anything from my list of dependencies above. If you are really keen on tidiness, you can make a new directory for the two source directories you are going to end up with, for example mkdir poppler and enter it: cd poppler.įirst download the encoding files (no need to compile these) to the current working directory wget Įxtract (it does untar cleanly): tar -xf poppler-data-0.4.7.tar.gzĮnter the directory cd poppler-data-0.4.7Īnd magically send the files to the right locations in /usr/share with: sudo make installĭownload & extract the main package: wget Open a terminal so you are in your home directory. (more dependencies may be found on other systems but I'm working from a 2-week old installation, so hopefully this will be enough for most) Poppler How to upgrade Poppler & Evince to fix problems opening password-protected PDF filesįirst install all these prerequisites for compiling: sudo apt install g++ autoconf libfontconfig1-dev pkg-config libjpeg-dev libopenjpeg-dev gnome-common libglib2.0-dev gtk-doc-tools libyelp-dev yelp-tools gobject-introspection libsecret-1-dev libnautilus-extension-dev To be able to open password-protected pdfs with Evince on my own system I found (after much testing) that I had to compile the latest release of Poppler from source and also compile the latest release of Evince, building it against the newer Poppler.
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