How to install qpdfview on Debian 8.3

How to install qpdfview on Debian 8.3

The qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer. It uses poppler for PDF support, libspectre for PS support, CUPS for printing support and Qt toolkit for its interface. It includes features like scaling, rotating and fitting the document, configurable tool bard, SyncTeX support. This tutorial covers the installation process of qpdfview on Debian 8.3.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, use the nano command to open the sources.list configuration file.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

The sources.list configuration file is opened. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Execute the following apt-get update command to update the apt sources-list in the target system.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]     
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease                     
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]                                   
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                                    
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]                             
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                                        
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]                              
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]            
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]                      
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]                      
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]            
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                                     
Get:11 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,790 kB]                         
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
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Get:22 http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-en [72.1 kB]                         
Fetched 23.5 MB in 2min 1s (193 kB/s)                                                         
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Now install the Qpdfview package by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install qpdfview
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5
  libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libxcb-render-util0
  qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qttranslations5-l10n
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5
  libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5xml5 libxcb-render-util0 qpdfview
  qpdfview-djvu-plugin qpdfview-ps-plugin qpdfview-translations qttranslations5-l10n
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 292 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,001 kB of archives.
After this operation, 36.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main libqt5core5a amd64 5.3.2+dfsg-4+deb8u2 [1,978 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main libqt5dbus5 amd64 5.3.2+dfsg-4+deb8u2 [191 kB]
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Setting up qttranslations5-l10n (5.3.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Once the package is installed click the activities window and type the qpdfview package name in the search bar. Click on the icon to run the application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? The qpdfview supports configurable keyboard shortcuts.