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How to install PDF Mod 0.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

by Toor, August 8th, 2009 | 15 Comments

PDF Mod is a simple but yet useful program. You can modify PDF documents under Linux via PDF Mod.

Currently, PDF Mod has the following features:

  • Rotate, extract, and remove pages
  • Supports reordering pages via drag and drop
  • Edit the title, subject, author, and keywords
  • Combine documents via drag and drop

Installing PDF Mod

To install PDF Mod 0.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), you can execute the following steps:

  1. Install build tools and dependencies of PDF Mod:

    $ sudo aptitude install build-essential intltool mono-gmcs

  2. Then run this command:

    $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gmcs2 /usr/bin/gmcs

  3. Get PDF Mod 0.5:

    $ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pdfmod/0.5/pdfmod-0.5.tar.gz

  4. Install PDF Mod:


    $ tar zxvf pdfmod-0.5.tar.gz
    $ cd pdfmod-0.5
    $ ./configure && make && sudo make install

Running PDF Mod

Click Applications → Accessories → PDF Mod.

PDF Mod

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15 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Jan // Aug 9, 2009 at 5:11 am

    Wow … just days ago I was thinking how great it would be to have such a nice piece of software. One less reason to start up the VM. This should be included by default as soon as possible - such a great feature.
    Now all we need is a truly PDF-based, simple and stable Word competitor to finally make people switch from msoffice.
    Thanks for the tip!

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  • 10 Antonio // Aug 16, 2009 at 3:49 am

    Thanks for this. Been wondering what commands I had to run

  • 11 Andrew // Aug 18, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    Is there any way I can get PDFMod 0.6 without compiling?

  • 12 shakaran // Aug 19, 2009 at 9:02 am

    PDFMod 0.6 uses something like hyena:
    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/hyena/0.1/

    I try compile but It is not working:
    wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/hyena/0.1/hyena-0.1.tar.gz
    tar zxvf hyena-0.1.tar.gz
    cd hyena-0.1/
    ./configure && make && sudo make install
    cd ..
    wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pdfmod/0.6/pdfmod-0.6.tar.gz
    tar zxvf pdfmod-0.6.tar.gz
    cd pdfmod-0.6/
    ./configure && make && sudo make install

    Then shows this error:
    cp -t ../bin @expanded_libdir@/hyena/Hyena.dll @expanded_libdir@/hyena/Hyena.Gui.dll
    cp: no se puede efectuar `stat’ sobre «@expanded_libdir@/hyena/Hyena.dll»: No existe el fichero ó directorio
    cp: no se puede efectuar `stat’ sobre «@expanded_libdir@/hyena/Hyena.Gui.dll»: No existe el fichero ó directorio
    make[1]: *** [../bin/PdfMod.exe] Error 1
    make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/shakaran/Escritorio/pdfmod-0.6/src’
    make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

    With PDFMod 0.5 no problem.

  • 13 tormaser // Sep 10, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    great post, but i can’t find run PdfMod clicked Click Applications → Accessories → PDF Mod and its not there, any ideas??… tnks.

  • 14 emrea // Sep 10, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Try installing hyena 0.2 first and then pdfmod 0.7 as instructed in the posts above - then it appears in the accessories menu and it works.

  • 15 satanselbow // Oct 1, 2009 at 6:56 am

    pdfmod-0.7 compiles, makes, installs with hyena-0.2 perfectly under Jaunty… and i’m an ubuntu n00b so if I can - so can you! Great bit of software too ;)

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