How to Install and Uninstall xpdf Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "xpdf" package

Learn how to install xpdf on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "xpdf" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall xpdf on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xpdf package on Kali Linux

Package: xpdf
Version: 3.04+git20240202-1
Installed-Size: 374
Maintainer: Florian Schlichting
Architecture: amd64
Provides: pdf-viewer
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libpaper1, libpoppler126 (>= 22.12.0), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libx11-6, libxm4 (>= 2.3.4), libxt6
Recommends: poppler-utils, poppler-data, fonts-urw-base35, cups-bsd, sensible-utils
Size: 125904
SHA256: 015bc9d18db639038bf963c290eba7822d6a30c855191e729ad75d0f82bcd6e1
SHA1: a7606cecc4bcae9167377bd2d57d743aafab4767
MD5sum: a89b223727ae9e09d0ded700cf384a1b
Description: Motif-based PDF reader using the Poppler library
xpdf is a light-weight open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF)
files (also called 'Adobe Acrobat' or 'Acrobat' files). This is just the
xpdf viewer client; various command-line pdf tools are now provided via the
poppler-utils package.
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Debian's xpdf is a fork of Xpdf version 3, modified to use the Poppler
PDF rendering library but keeping the Motif toolkit, and nowadays maintained
as the xpopple project.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://offog.org/code/xpopple/
Tag: implemented-in::c++, interface::graphical, interface::x11,
role::program, scope::application, uitoolkit::motif, use::viewing,
works-with-format::pdf, works-with::text, x11::application
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.04+git20240202-1_amd64.deb