{"id":7770,"date":"2018-05-21T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:47:26","slug":"install-mupdf-1-3-0-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/install-mupdf-1-3-0-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install MuPDF 1.13.0 in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-icon1.png\" alt=\"MuPDF Ubuntu 16.04\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install the latest MuPDF viewer 1.13.0 in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mupdf.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MuPDF<\/a> is a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer that consists of a software library, command line tools, and viewers for various platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The latest MuPDF 1.13.0 is primarily a bugfix release that features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New &#8220;mutool sign&#8221; tool for showing and verifying digital signatures.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, and Greek font support in mutool create.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to annotation editing API.<\/li>\n<li>And some security fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install MuPDF 1.13.0 in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint:<\/h4>\n<p>Besides building the tool from source, there&#8217;s an unofficial PPA with the packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from start menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p>Type in password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitch-ppa-bionic-600x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"84\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitch-ppa-bionic-600x84.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitch-ppa-bionic-450x63.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitch-ppa-bionic.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then install <code>mupdf<\/code> and <code>mupdf-tools<\/code> packages either via Synaptic Package Manager or by running following commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install mupdf mupdf-tools<\/pre>\n<p>If you have a previous release installed, simply launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> to upgrade the tool after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p>To use the PDF\/XPS viewer, right-click on your file and select open with MuPDF. You can also set MuPDF as default in the Properties window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-600x305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-600x305.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf-450x229.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/mupdf.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To restore MuPDF to the stock version available in your Ubuntu\u2019s main archive, run command in terminal to purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install the latest MuPDF viewer 1.13.0 in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10. MuPDF is a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer that consists of a software library, command line tools, and viewers for various platforms. The latest MuPDF 1.13.0 is primarily a bugfix release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1264,1265],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-mupdf","tag-pdf-viewer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}