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Web site:	https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Repository:	https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler

HOWTO

# Poppler
# =======
# Slackware 14.0: poppler 0.20.2, poppler-data 0.4.5
# Slackware 14.1: poppler 0.24.3, poppler-data 0.4.6
# Slackware 14.2: poppler 0.45.0, poppler-data 0.4.7
# Slackware 15.0: poppler 21.12.0, poppler-data 0.4.11

# In addition to the link to cgit, you can also view the Git repository at
# the following URL:
# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler

# Prerequisites:
# CMake
# pkg-config
# Freetype >= 2.10
# fontconfig >= 2.13
# libjpeg
# zlib
# libpng
# libtiff >= 4.1
# NSS >= 3.68
# GPGME's libgpgmepp
# Qt 5.x or 6.x (optional)
# Glib >= 2.64 (optional)
# glibc's iconv or libiconv
# OpenJPEG
# XFree86 or X.org
# Cairo >= 1.16.0 (optional; you have to have Cairo or splash installed)
# boost >= 1.71.0
# gtk-doc (included in Slackware's sgml-tools/linuxdoc-tools packages; --enable-gtk-doc)
# GTK+ >= 2.14.0 (optional)
# lcms (optional)
# libxml2 (optional; for the AbiWord backend)
# libcurl >= 7.68 (optional; for --enable-libcurl)

# Poppler can use Cairo and Cairo can use Poppler, so you may want to
# build one, then the other, then the first one again.

# Previous updates to this HOWTO used the default installation prefix.
# Since then, where Slackware puts it (/usr).
# If you're replacing an older version installed from source, skip down
# to the bottom for removal notes.

# poppler-data 0.4.12
# ===================
# Get it
cd
test -f installed/poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz &&
mv installed/poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz .
test ! -f poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz &&
wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
# [ https://pgp.surfnet.nl/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7 ]
( gpg --list-keys CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7 > \
   /dev/null 2>&1 ||
  gpg --recv-keys CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7 ) &&
wget -nc https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz.sig &&
  gpg --verify poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz.sig &&
   rm poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz.sig

# Extract it
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "poppler-data-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz
cd poppler-data-0.4.12
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware package, if there is one
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg poppler-data

# Remove old poppler-data files
test -d /usr/share/poppler && rm -r /usr/share/poppler
test -d /usr/local/share/poppler && rm -r /usr/local/share/poppler

# Install it
make install prefix=/usr datadir=/usr/lib64 pkgdatadir=/usr/share/poppler

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/poppler-data-*.tar.*
mv poppler-data-0.4.12.tar.gz installed/

# Poppler 23.12.0
# ===============
# Get the source tarball
cd
test -f installed/poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz &&
mv installed/poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz .
test ! -f poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz &&
wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz

# Verify tarball w/ sha256sum:
# (this came from my gpg-verified tarball)
echo "beba398c9d37a9b6d02486496635e08f1df3d437cfe61dab2593f47c4d14cd\
bb  poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
# [ https://pgp.surfnet.nl/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7 ]
( gpg --list-keys CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7 > \
   /dev/null 2>&1 ||
  gpg --recv-keys CA262C6C83DE4D2FB28A332A3A6A4DB839EAA6D7 ) &&
wget -nc https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz.sig &&
  gpg --verify poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz.sig &&
   rm poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz.sig

# Extract it
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex "^\.\/poppler-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$" \
-exec rm -r {} \;
tar xJvf ~/poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz
cd poppler-23.12.0
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Create the build directory
mkdir build
cd build

# Get Poppler test data from Git (if you want to run 'make test')
# and add this below:
# -DTESTDATADIR=./test
git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test

# If you don't have QT 5.x installed add -DENABLE_QT5=OFF
# If you don't have QT 6.x installed add -DENABLE_QT6=OFF

# Configure the build for 64-bit
test $(uname -m) = 'x86_64' &&
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/local/lib64 \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR=/usr/local/man \
-DENABLE_QT5=OFF -DENABLE_QT6=OFF ..

# Configure the build for anything else
test $(uname -m) != 'x86_64' &&
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR=/usr/local/man \
-DENABLE_QT5=OFF -DENABLE_QT6=OFF ..

# If you don't have a /usr/share/man -> /usr/man symlink and really
# need to change it and CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR doesn't do anything:
test ! -f build/utils/cmake_install.cmake.orig &&
cp -a build/utils/cmake_install.cmake build/utils/cmake_install.cmake.orig
cat build/utils/cmake_install.cmake.orig | \
sed 's|/share/man|/man|g' > build/utils/cmake_install.cmake

# Build it
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware package, if there is one
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg poppler

# Clean up old shared library files, if you are sure they are no longer in
# use
( cd /usr/lib
  rm -f libpoppler.* libpoppler-cpp.* libpoppler-glib.* libpoppler-qt.* \
   libpoppler-qt4.* libpoppler-qt5.* libpoppler-qt6.* )
test -d /usr/lib64 &&
( cd /usr/lib64
   rm -f libpoppler.* libpoppler-cpp.* libpoppler-glib.* libpoppler-qt.* \
    libpoppler-qt4.* libpoppler-qt5.* libpoppler-qt6.* )

# Install it
make install
ldconfig

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become yourself again
exit

# Save the tarball for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/poppler-0.*.tar.*
mv poppler-23.12.0.tar.xz installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall Poppler, this should do it:
cd
su
test -f ~/src/poppler-*/build/install_manifest.txt &&
cat ~/src/poppler-*/build/install_manifest.txt | xargs rm
for pfx in /usr /usr/local; do
  ( cd ${pfx}/bin
    rm -f pdfdetach pdffonts pdfimages pdfinfo pdfseparate pdftoabw \
     pdftocairo pdftohtml pdftoppm pdftops pdftotext pdfsig pdfunite )
  test -d ${pfx}/include/poppler && rm -r ${pfx}/include/poppler
  for libdir in ${pfx}/lib ${pfx}/lib64;
  do
    ( cd $libdir
      rm -f libpoppler.* libpoppler-cpp.* libpoppler-glib.* libpoppler-qt.* )
    ( cd ${libdir}/pkgconfig
      rm -f poppler.pc poppler-cairo.pc poppler-cpp.pc \
       poppler-data.pc poppler-glib.pc poppler-qt.pc poppler-splash.pc )
  done
  ( cd ${pfx}/man/man1
    rm -f pdfdetach.1 pdffonts.1 pdfimages.1 pdfinfo.1 pdfseparate.1 \
     pdfsig.1 pdfsig.1 pdftocairo.1 pdftohtml.1 pdftoppm.1 pdftops.1 \
     pdftotext.1 pdfunite.1 )
  test -d ${pfx}/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler &&
   rm -r ${pfx}/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler
  test -d ${pfx}/share/poppler && rm -r ${pfx}/share/poppler
done
ldconfig
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "poppler-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/poppler-*.tar.*