Information about the package, qpdf, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The qpdf package is designed for, Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files.
Package Name:
qpdf
Summary:
Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files
Description:
QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.1.1
Release:
6.el6
Size:
45 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
Artistic 2.0 and MIT
Control the qpdf package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install qpdf
This command will install qpdf on the server.
yum remove qpdf
This command will un-install qpdf on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove qpdf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove qpdf
This command will un-install qpdf on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove qpdf when using the -y flag.
yum update qpdf
This command will update qpdf to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove qpdf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update qpdf
This command will update qpdf to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove qpdf when using the -y flag.
yum info qpdf
This command will show you core information about the qpdf package.
yum deplist qpdf
This command will show you the dependencies for qpdf. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update qpdf
This command will check if there is an update waiting on qpdf. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.