How To Install poppler.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. poppler.i686 is PDF rendering library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `poppler.i686`

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

We can use yum to install poppler.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poppler.i686.

Install poppler.i686 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.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poppler.i686

How To Uninstall poppler.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the poppler.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove poppler.i686

poppler.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.46
/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.46.0.0
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.26.5
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.26.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.26.5/README

References

poppler.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppler.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.