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    From au76666@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 9 08:31:19 2018
    I have been a happy user of pdftk for some years. Fairly
    recently I installed it into an Ubuntu 16.04 system without
    problems. However, very recently on my home laptop with
    Kubuntu 18.04 I cannot install pdftk. The system says it
    can't find it.

    I have tried to contact the people who make it but so far
    without any luck. The web site mentions downloads for
    Red Hat and one other Linux variant, but not Ubuntu.

    What is happening? And/or, is there another similar tool
    that is recommended and can be installed under Ubuntu?

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    Dieter Britz

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  • From T.K.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 10 11:44:00 2018
    Dne 9.8.2018 v 10:31 au76666 napsal(a):
    I have been a happy user of pdftk for some years. Fairly
    recently I installed it into an Ubuntu 16.04 system without
    problems. However, very recently on my home laptop with
    Kubuntu 18.04 I cannot install pdftk. The system says it
    can't find it.

    I have tried to contact the people who make it but so far
    without any luck. The web site mentions downloads for
    Red Hat and one other Linux variant, but not Ubuntu.

    What is happening? And/or, is there another similar tool
    that is recommended and can be installed under Ubuntu?


    As far as I know pdftk depends on older versions of some other packages
    and those older versions are not included in newer versions of the distribution. But there is a software repository containing such "outdependenced" programs in the form of binaries with statically linked libraries (fully self-contained) and in Ubuntu there is a tool to use it.

    Your problem should be resolved simply by the shell command

    sudo snap install pdftk.


    Tomáš

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  • From db@21:1/5 to T.K. on Fri Aug 10 13:54:42 2018
    On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:44:00 +0200, T.K. wrote:

    sudo snap install pdftk

    Wow, thanks! That worked. It did not set up a man
    file, but I don't need it anyway. Great stuff, and
    I live and learn.
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    Dieter Britz

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  • From T.K.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 10 17:31:24 2018
    Dne 10.8.2018 v 15:54 db napsal(a):
    On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:44:00 +0200, T.K. wrote:

    sudo snap install pdftk

    Wow, thanks! That worked. It did not set up a man
    file, but I don't need it anyway. Great stuff, and
    I live and learn.



    Indeed, you are right, I had not noticed before!
    But if I remember well the pdftk man page, the output of pdftk --help is identical to it.

    T.

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