How to Install and Uninstall poppler-utils Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "poppler-utils" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install poppler-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                poppler-utils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "poppler-utils" package

Learn how to uninstall poppler-utils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the poppler-utils package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: poppler-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Source: poppler
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Loic Minier
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 467
Provides: pdftohtml, xpdf-utils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.12.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpoppler58 (>= 0.41.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Conflicts: pdftohtml
Breaks: xpdf-utils (<< 3.02-2~)
Replaces: pdftohtml, xpdf-reader, xpdf-utils (<< 3.02-2~)
Filename: pool/main/p/poppler/poppler-utils_0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16_amd64.deb
Size: 130556
MD5sum: 3ee9bfab2a79a78ac44346502152eb7e
SHA1: 96597b6fb5ee06500828af3689bb6ed4739fd1c1
SHA256: ef3108dcc96a8dca665d4d620e50bf5d891864da05e10a9d34c95846fc37c1bc
SHA512: fd811611683ad33516f189dd932a7a2e66150294c3298d87e31a45771d0c6ffa9592f3dc77b858463d69aa59bc498eb77c756322bf5600ad06fed39f662504bc
Homepage: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Description-en: PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf PDF viewer.
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This package contains command line utilities (based on Poppler) for getting
information of PDF documents, convert them to other formats, or manipulate
them:
* pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
* pdffonts -- font analyzer
* pdfimages -- image extractor
* pdfinfo -- document information
* pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
* pdftocairo -- PDF to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG converter using Cairo
* pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
* pdftoppm -- PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
* pdftops -- PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
* pdftotext -- text extraction
* pdfunite -- document merging tool
Description-md5: 5fb5e8ca35857f2fe9d6a276fa940e24
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, print-server, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-desktop, lubuntu-core, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop
Supported: 5y

Package: poppler-utils
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 465
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Loic Minier
Architecture: amd64
Source: poppler
Version: 0.41.0-0ubuntu1
Replaces: pdftohtml, xpdf-reader, xpdf-utils (<< 3.02-2~)
Provides: pdftohtml, xpdf-utils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.12.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpoppler58 (>= 0.41.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Conflicts: pdftohtml
Breaks: xpdf-utils (<< 3.02-2~)
Filename: pool/main/p/poppler/poppler-utils_0.41.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 130156
MD5sum: 3ac224c4aaeac8b4b33c17b3eecae71d
SHA1: 03e35d9c79455b01cffcbc635219bdb665067740
SHA256: 995e6af26b24f539df466df997dce3f391b9698097d6c2e691857eb88ce746b8
Description-en: PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf PDF viewer.
.
This package contains command line utilities (based on Poppler) for getting
information of PDF documents, convert them to other formats, or manipulate
them:
* pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
* pdffonts -- font analyzer
* pdfimages -- image extractor
* pdfinfo -- document information
* pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
* pdftocairo -- PDF to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG converter using Cairo
* pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
* pdftoppm -- PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
* pdftops -- PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
* pdftotext -- text extraction
* pdfunite -- document merging tool
Description-md5: 5fb5e8ca35857f2fe9d6a276fa940e24
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, print-server, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-desktop, lubuntu-core, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop