How to Install and Uninstall xpdf Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "xpdf" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install xpdf on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "xpdf" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall xpdf on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: xpdf
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.04+git20210103-3build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Florian Schlichting
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 327
Provides: pdf-viewer
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libpaper1, libpoppler111 (>= 21.06.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, libxm4 (>= 2.3.4), libxt6
Recommends: poppler-utils, poppler-data, gsfonts-x11, cups-bsd, sensible-utils
Filename: pool/universe/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.04+git20210103-3build1_amd64.deb
Size: 114332
MD5sum: 8a47717330e0a99f554c7cccb7e6de4f
SHA1: 3a2346b0270b251cd21275ce38f653d967eee17a
SHA256: d805f6c43d2f75f4b06d12a175f0ab1ac195f2f6f8c5d7bbc92dbe84070f3ccb
SHA512: c1bcf31981ac4f954db6ca512a82c7963c97c479048d984411fbcc6f91d2f159208f12f0518970949b35686cbe9f679f81074b7f0afb4d5ea3a6dc33c29686b2
Homepage: http://offog.org/code/xpopple/
Description-en: 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: 5c80fd99d8c6334a41113f229074b7f5