Installation of MuPDF
Install MuPDF by running the
following commands:
cat > user.make << EOF &&
USE_SYSTEM_FREETYPE := yes
USE_SYSTEM_HARFBUZZ := yes
USE_SYSTEM_JBIG2DEC := no
USE_SYSTEM_JPEGXR := no # not used without HAVE_JPEGXR
USE_SYSTEM_LCMS2 := no # need lcms2-art fork
USE_SYSTEM_LIBJPEG := yes
USE_SYSTEM_MUJS := no # build needs source anyway
USE_SYSTEM_OPENJPEG := yes
USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB := yes
USE_SYSTEM_GLUT := no # need freeglut2-art fork
USE_SYSTEM_CURL := yes
USE_SYSTEM_GUMBO := no
EOF
export XCFLAGS=-fPIC &&
make build=release shared=yes verbose=yes &&
unset XCFLAGS
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make prefix=/usr \
shared=yes \
docdir=/usr/share/doc/mupdf-1.24.8 \
install &&
ln -sfv libmupdf.so.24.8 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so &&
ln -sfv libmupdf.so.24.8 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so.8 &&
chmod 755 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so.24.8 &&
ln -sfv mupdf-x11 /usr/bin/mupdf
Command Explanations
ln -sfv mupdf-x11
/usr/bin/mupdf : This symbolic link chooses between
mupdf-gl and
mupdf-x11 when
running mupdf.
Contents
Installed Program:
mupdf (symlink), mupdf-gl, mupdf-x11,
mupdf-x11-curl, muraster, and mutool
Installed Libraries:
libmupdf.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/mupdf,
/usr/share/doc/mupdf-1.24.8
Short Descriptions
mupdf
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is a program for viewing PDF, XPS, EPUB, and CBZ
documents, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG,
GIFF, and TIFF
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mupdf-gl
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same as mupdf, using an opengl
renderer
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mupdf-x11
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same as mupdf, using an X
Window renderer
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muraster
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is a program used to perform rasterization tasks with PDF
documents
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mutool
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is a program to perform various operations on PDF files,
such as merging and cleaning PDF documents
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libmupdf.so
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contains the mupdf API functions
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