[SOLVED] Having trouble installing pdfedit

leonardevens · #1 2nd July 2012, 10:03 PM

I got the tar file package for pdfedit, and I am having trouble with it.

I can't get ./configure to complete. I got to the qt stuff, but I can't get past it. Right now it can't find or set up qmake and nothing I've tried works.

I am running Fedora 17, 64 bit version. I did manage to get this to work under Fedora 14.

Any suggestions?

Is there a yum package anywhere for pdfedit?

Is there any other program which will allow me to edit a pdf fille?

Actually, it would suffice if I could turn a pdf file into a text file which I could edit.

nonamedotc · #2 2nd July 2012, 10:33 PM

pdfedit package has been orphaned. See here.

What error are you getting when you try to install?

leonardevens · #3 2nd July 2012, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

pdfedit package has been orphaned. See here.

What error are you getting when you try to install?

./configure

stops with

checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui... yes
checking for QT qmake... configure: error: unable to find qmake for QT3

I've tried various possibilities for QTDIR and QMAKESPEC But none of them do any good.

If it has been orphaned, is there anything to replace it? I've found progams which can be used to combine pdf files, but nothing to edit such files.

nonamedotc · #4 2nd July 2012, 11:14 PM

Do you have qt3-devel installed?

Code:

qt3-devel-3.3.8b-41.fc17.x86_64 : Development files for the Qt 3 GUI toolkit
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin/qmake

If you are looking at annotating pdf files, you could try xournal. Unfortunately, I do not know of any pdf editing packages.

george_toolan · #5 3rd July 2012, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Actually, it would suffice if I could turn a pdf file into a text file which I could edit.

Have you tried copy & paste?

leonardevens · #6 3rd July 2012, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Do you have qt3-devel installed?
.

Yes. I had to install that and other packages to get as far as I did.

My problem may be figuring out how to set QTDIR and QMAKESPEC

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Quote:

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Have you tried copy & paste?

The particular pdf file was obtained by printing a web page. I had tried copying the contents of the web page, which didn't work, but i didn't think of copying the contents of the pdf file. It turns out that does work, so it solves my immediate problem. But I still would like to resurrect pdfedit or find a substitute for it.

I did try inkscape, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to edit the particular pdf file.

RupertPupkin · #7 3rd July 2012, 06:09 PM

Why not install the F15 package for pdfedit from the link that nonamedotc provided? I just installed the 64-bit version from here and it works perfectly in F17. It's often the case that packages for older Fedora releases will still work in the current release.

george_toolan · #8 4th July 2012, 04:27 AM

Pdfedit 0.4.5 compiles out of the box with Fedora 16

Code:

yum install qt3 qt3-devel

Does Fedora 17 still have qt3 libraries?

Code:

tar xjvf ~/Downloads/pdfedit-0.4.5.tar.bz2
cd pdfedit-0.4.5
export QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3
./configure
make

sudo make install

RupertPupkin · #9 4th July 2012, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by george_toolan

does fedora 17 still have qt3 libraries?

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flyingfsck · #10 4th July 2012, 10:46 AM

Do you really need pdfedit?

Have a look at Xournal. It may be all you need.

leonardevens · #11 4th July 2012, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

Why not install the F15 package for pdfedit from the link that nonamedotc provided? I just installed the 64-bit version from here and it works perfectly in F17. It's often the case that packages for older Fedora releases will still work in the current release.

II downloaded the Fedora 15 rpm file and tried to install it. I get the message

error: Failed dependencies:
libt1.so.5()(64bit) is needed by pdfedit-0.4.5-4.fc15.x86_64

I do have
/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libtllo.so

Should i try to tell it to use that? If so, you could save me some time by telling me the best way to do that.

Or, should I try to find another package which contains that library? yum search libtl doesn't find anything.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Pdfedit 0.4.5 compiles out of the box with Fedora 16

Code:

yum install qt3 qt3-devel

Does Fedora 17 still have qt3 libraries?

Code:

tar xjvf ~/Downloads/pdfedit-0.4.5.tar.bz2
cd pdfedit-0.4.5
export QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3
./configure
make

sudo make install

That is exactly what I was trying to do. I even used the QTDIR you suggested. But it didn't work, as I explained previously.

RupertPupkin · #12 4th July 2012, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leonardevens

II downloaded the Fedora 15 rpm file and tried to install it. I get the message

error: Failed dependencies:
libt1.so.5()(64bit) is needed by pdfedit-0.4.5-4.fc15.x86_64

I do have
/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libtllo.so

Should i try to tell it to use that? If so, you could save me some time by telling me the best way to do that.

Or, should I try to find another package which contains that library? yum search libtl doesn't find anything.

You mistook the number 1 in libt1 for the letter l. Do this:

Code:

yum install t1lib

Try running pdfedit after installing that t1lib package. If it still complains about missing libraries, then run this command:

Code:

ldd /usr/bin/pdfedit

Post the output here and we'll be able to help you identify the required library packages.

leonardevens · #13 4th July 2012, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

You mistook the number 1 in libt1 for the letter l. Do this:

Code:

yum install t1lib

Try running pdfedit after installing that t1lib package. If it still complains about missing libraries, then run this command:

Code:

ldd /usr/bin/pdfedit

Post the output here and we'll be able to help you identify the required library packages.

That was the problem. Sorry about that