Re: pdftk

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On 12/10/2014 04:31 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/10/2014 07:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that
Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be
missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it
is a bit useless to make the comment here. But hopefully senior folk
in Fedora can give a push for pdftk to be "somewhere" within the
Linux world that Fedora users can pick up (and also Centos).
We'd love to have it in Fedora. The itext5 author is really the person
to talk to here.
Who would that be? Can this go to RPMfusion?

That's up to the RPMfusion people. But really, that's a lot less
ideal than having the software licensed in a truly open way so everyone
can benefit.

Completely agree with this sentiment! But we can not do much here, I guess, except hope!

Ranjan


I'm running pclos-kde, and I had not heard of pdftk, but my system has it available in the repos, so I looked up the description. It seems to be a very useful, competent tool with a lot of features, so I really don't understand why Fedora would drop it. However, it is available from PDF labs in an rpm version, so you should be able to download it
and install in Fedora. Here's the url:

https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk-on-redhat-or-centos/

(I don't know if it has dependencies that you no longer have in addition to not
have pdftk.)

--doug

I downloaded the el6 64 bit version, and ran rpmrebuild to rebrand it as
fc21 and tried to install it.
Below are the reasons why fedora dropped this package:

# yum -y install pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks
Examining pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm: pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64
Marking pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package pdftk.x86_64 0:2.02-1.fc21 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libgcj for package: pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgcj.so.10()(64bit) for package: pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64 (/pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64)
           Requires: libgcj.so.10()(64bit)
Error: Package: pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64 (/pdftk-2.02-1.fc21.x86_64)
           Requires: libgcj
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem


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