How To Install poppler-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. poppler-utils.x86_64 is Command line utilities for converting PDF files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `poppler-utils.x86_64`

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. This utils package installs a number of command line tools for converting PDF files to a number of other formats.

We can use yum to install poppler-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poppler-utils.x86_64.

Install poppler-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install poppler-utils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poppler-utils.x86_64

How To Uninstall poppler-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the poppler-utils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove poppler-utils.x86_64

poppler-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pdfdetach
/usr/bin/pdffonts
/usr/bin/pdfimages
/usr/bin/pdfinfo
/usr/bin/pdfseparate
/usr/bin/pdftocairo
/usr/bin/pdftohtml
/usr/bin/pdftoppm
/usr/bin/pdftops
/usr/bin/pdftotext
/usr/bin/pdfunite
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfdetach.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdffonts.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfimages.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfseparate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftocairo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftohtml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftops.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftotext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfunite.1.gz

References

poppler-utils.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler-utils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.