How to install poppler 0.73 on ubuntu 18.04
Solution 1
To make it working we need to do the following:
Uninstall the
libpoppler-cpp-dev
packagesudo apt purge libpoppler-cpp-dev
Compile and install Poppler 0.73 with
checkinstall
(as you already did) to the/usr/local
:sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev cmake checkinstall sudo apt-get build-dep libpoppler-cpp-dev cd ~/Downloads wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.73.0.tar.xz tar -xf poppler-0.73.0.tar.xz cd poppler-0.73.0 mkdir build cd build cmake .. sudo checkinstall make install
Define the environment variable R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH to inform R about the Poppler libraries in
/usr/local/lib
:echo "export R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib" >> .bashrc
Compile the
pdftools
R-package insideR
-shell:install.packages("pdftools")
Test it from
R
-shell with any pdf-file> pdftools::pdf_data(pdf="/usr/share/cups/data/default.pdf") [1]] [1] width height x y space text <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
Note: I tested this method on my clean Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VM with both R 3.4 and 3.5.2 from R-shell and from RStudio.
Solution 2
I created a PPA with backports of Poppler 0.74.0 for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic). This is now the recommended way to update your poppler.
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:cran/poppler
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libpoppler-cpp-dev
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Robert McDonald over 1 year
I am running 18.04 and trying to use version 2.1 of the R package
pdftools
. Some functionality requirespoppler >= 0.73
. (A poppler version requirement is documented in?pdftools::pdf_data
.)I obtained
poppler-0.73.0.tar.xz
andpoppler-data-0.4.9.tar.gz
from https://poppler.freedesktop.org/. I extracted, followed the INSTALL instructions, and all seemed to work. I can verify that/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so
points to/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.73
. I'm not sure what else to look for or whether update-alternatives would be helpful.In R, when I run
pdftools::pdf_data
this happens:> pdf_data(fn) Error in poppler_pdf_data(loadfile(pdf), opw, upw) : pdf_data() requires poppler >= 0.73. You have 0.62.0
Other functions in
pdftools
work, butpdf_data
is documented to requiredpoppler >= 0.73
. I'm wondering what else I need to do to have 0.73 recognized.EDIT: Following helpful suggestions at Installing poppler-0.62.0 on ubuntu 16.04, I ran
apt-cache policy poppler-0.73
and got:poppler-0.73: Installed: 20190125-0.73 Candidate: 20190125-0.73 Version table: *** 20190125-0.73 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
This seems to suggest that 0.73 is installed.
The output of
apt-cache policy r-base-core
isr-base-core: Installed: 3.5.2-1bionic Candidate: 3.5.2-1bionic Version table: *** 3.5.2-1bionic 500 500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.5.1-2bionic 500 500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages 3.5.1-1bionic 500 500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages 3.5.0-1bionic 500 500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500 500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
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N0rbert over 5 yearsWhich version of R do you use? Please add output of
apt-cache policy r-base-core
to the question. I have successfully installedpdftools
it with R 3.4 from official Ubuntu 18.04 LTS repositories. I have installed Poppler withsudo apt install libpoppler-cpp-dev
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Robert McDonald over 5 years@N0rbert I have edited the question both to add the
apt-cache policy
output, and to clarify thatpdftools
mostly works, butpdf_data
does not. It works as documented. My guess is thatpdf_data
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N0rbert over 5 yearsI do not see the
pdf_data
in the list of R-CRAN packages. What is exact name of it? -
Robert McDonald over 5 years@N0rbert
pdf_data
is a function inpdftools
. See the third paragraph of my post,pdftools::pdf_data
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N0rbert over 5 yearsSolved. See my answer below.
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Robert McDonald over 5 yearsAwesome, thank you! Excellent instructions. In my case the missing step was setting
R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and then reinstalling pdftools. -
Montoya over 4 yearsUse: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:cran/poppler
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Matifou about 4 yearsthanks Jeroen for the PPA, very much appreciated!!
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Andres Mora over 2 yearsCould you please provide me some help? Im running Debian 9 and I have done all steps above and i am getting errors when trying to install the package
pdftool
s in R.Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘pdftools’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...): unable to load shared object '/home/admonda/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/00LOCK-pdftools/00new/pdftools/libs/pdftools.so': libpoppler-cpp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: loading failed
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N0rbert over 2 yearsDebian 9 is off-topic here. You have to adapt above answer on your own