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poppler-utils


Information about the package, poppler-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The poppler-utils package is designed for, Command line utilities for converting PDF files.


Package Name:

poppler-utils

Summary:

Command line utilities for converting PDF files

Description:

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.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.12.4

Release:

12.el6_9

Size:

74 k

Repository:

updates

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for poppler-utils


Control the poppler-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install poppler-utils

This command will install poppler-utils on the server.

yum remove poppler-utils

This command will un-install poppler-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove poppler-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove poppler-utils

This command will un-install poppler-utils 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 poppler-utils when using the -y flag.

yum update poppler-utils

This command will update poppler-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove poppler-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update poppler-utils

This command will update poppler-utils 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 poppler-utils when using the -y flag.

yum info poppler-utils

This command will show you core information about the poppler-utils package.

yum deplist poppler-utils

This command will show you the dependencies for poppler-utils. 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 poppler-utils

This command will check if there is an update waiting on poppler-utils. 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.