Installing xpdf on RHEL 5
Recently, I had reason to install xpdf on RHEL 5 for use with DSpace. I had already installed freetype, but for some reason, the xpdf configure file was not able to find the freetype2.
I finally got this configured after running the following
freetype-config --cflags
This gave the output of -I/usr/include/freetype2
Next, I used that path with the configure command as follows:
./configure --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2/
After that, it configured perfectly.
Greet post, although simple.
It alread helped me but I got stuck with the following when running configure:
configure: WARNING: Couldn’t find X
configure: WARNING: Couldn’t find Motif
configure: WARNING: — You will be able to compile pdftops, pdftotext,
pdfinfo, pdffonts, and pdfimages, but not xpdf or pdftoppm
Is there a way to combine the output of each one (Motif and X) to configure properly?
Anyway, tks because 1/3 of the problem is solved…
Denis Vinny
December 4, 2010 at 12:01 pm
I am having the exact same issue. Was able to fix the freetype issue. I am trying to install the pdftohtml program and it continues to fail do to the xpdf not being installed.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
Matt VM
April 9, 2011 at 10:51 am
Your own post, “Installing xpdf on RHEL 5 NeoArch” ended up being well worth writing a comment here!
Basically needed to state you really did a great
job. Thank you -Simone
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February 6, 2013 at 4:58 am