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poppler


Information about the package, poppler, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The poppler package is designed for, PDF rendering library.


Package Name:

poppler

Summary:

PDF rendering library

Description:

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

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.12.4

Release:

12.el6_9

Size:

559 k

Repository:

updates

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for poppler


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install poppler

This command will install poppler on the server.

yum remove poppler

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

yum -y remove poppler

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

yum update poppler

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

yum -y update poppler

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

yum info poppler

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

yum deplist poppler

This command will show you the dependencies for poppler. 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

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