How to install Krop on Parrot Os 3.9

To install Krop on Parrot Os 3.9

Krop is a free, simple and lightweight graphical PDF crop tool. You can split pages in a PDF file into sub-pages using Krop, doing this may help you crop the pages of a PDF file to fit the limited screen size of devices such as eReaders. One of the interesting features of Krop is that it has the option of automatic selection via Trim Margins button. Krop also lets you to crop all pages, even/odd page, or an individual page. Page exception is also supported. The method to install Krop on ParrotOS 3.9 is covered in this tutorial.

Installing Krop

In order to install Krop, you need to first download the installation package by using the wget command along with its official download link.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #wget http://arminstraub.com/downloads/krop/krop_0.4.11-1_all.deb
--2018-01-17 17:38:29--  http://arminstraub.com/downloads/krop/krop_0.4.11-1_all.deb
Resolving arminstraub.com (arminstraub.com)... 107.191.102.54
Connecting to arminstraub.com (arminstraub.com)|107.191.102.54|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18058 (18K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ krop_0.4.11-1_all.deb’ 
krop_0.4.11-1_all.d 100%[===================> ]  17.63K  --.-KB/s    in 0s      
2018-01-17 17:38:39 (124 MB/s) - ‘ krop_0.4.11-1_all.deb’  saved [18058/18058]

Once it is done, you shall proceed with the installation of all the required dependency packages by triggering the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #apt-get install python-poppler-qt4 python-pypdf2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python-pypdf2 is already the newest version (1.26.0-2).
python-pypdf2 set to manually installed.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libpoppler-qt4-4 libpoppler72
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpoppler-qt4-4 libpoppler72 python-poppler-qt4
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1317 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,552 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,279 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
0% [Connecting to deb.parrotsec.org]
Get:3 https://mirror.kku.ac.th/parrot stable/main amd64 python-poppler-qt4 amd64 0.24.0-1+b5 [69.3 kB]
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Unpacking libpoppler-qt4-4:amd64 (0.61.1-2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python-poppler-qt4.
Preparing to unpack .../python-poppler-qt4_0.24.0-1+b5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking python-poppler-qt4 (0.24.0-1+b5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
Setting up libpoppler72:amd64 (0.61.1-2) ...
Setting up libpoppler-qt4-4:amd64 (0.61.1-2) ...
Setting up python-poppler-qt4 (0.24.0-1+b5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-17) ...
Configuring sandbox profiles....
Sandbox profiles updated!

Once it is done, you shall install the downloaded deb packages by making use of the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #dpkg -i krop_0.4.11-1_all.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package krop.
(Reading database ... 420106 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack krop_0.4.11-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking krop (0.4.11-1) ...
Setting up krop (0.4.11-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...

And then, once the installation is done, open your application by making use of the following command.

┌─[root@linuxhelp]─[~]
└──╼ #krop

Your Krop application now appears on your screen.

With this, the installation of Krop on ParrotOS 3.9 comes to an end.