Pdf2Html Installation

Question

I 'm trying to install Pdf2HtmlEx Software on Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS. The repository is not maintained but the sotware is very useful for me.

I installed it on Xubuntu desktop distro and on a docker image but i can't do it on ubuntu server.

It seems that some new versions of pdf2htmlEx library dependencies are not compatible with the last version of the sofware.

Has anyone have de same issue? Could someone tell me how to install it?

I have try with

• rajeevkannav solution
• Copying this dockerfile
• Following Build Installation

The oficial repo is pdf2htmlEX

Thank you for know!

Answer 1

Install m4

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.17.tar.gz && tar -xvzf m4-1.4.17.tar.gz cd m4-1.4.17 && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/m4 && make && make install

Install poppler dependencies

apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ pkg-config libopenjp2-7-dev libopenjp2-7 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfontforge-dev poppler-data poppler-utils \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Install poppler

wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.63.0.tar.xz --no-check-certificate && tar -xvf poppler-0.63.0.tar.xz cd poppler-0.63.0/ && cmake -DENABLE_XPDF_HEADERS=ON . && make && make install

Install fontforge dependencies

apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ packaging-dev pkg-config python-dev libpango1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev \ libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev uthash-dev libspiro-dev \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

pkg-config --print-provides --cflags --libs poppler

Install fontforge

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge.git cd fontforge/ && ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && make install

Clone and install the pdf2htmlEX git repo

git clone https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX.git cd pdf2htmlEX && cmake . && make && make install