Comments on: Pdftk not working on Ubuntu 9.10 – Fix

By: Carl Keck

Carl Keck — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:38:59 +0000

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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:38:30 +0000

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By: liam

liam — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:56:23 +0000

Excellent news, Nick. Thanks for the tip.

I haven’t installed 10.04 yet as I’m still fearing more things will break, but I will update the post to let everyone know 10.04 no longer requires this work around.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:54:21 +0000

They appear to have updated pdftk in 10.04, the patching is no longer necessary. I’m unsure if the package was updated in 9.10.

By: Bojan

Bojan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:41:01 +0000

Thanks for the nice explanation liam. It worked in first try

By: Anders Vinther

Anders Vinther — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:23:04 +0000

Awesome – a life saver!

Thanks…

By: mooman

mooman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:15:23 +0000

Awesome! thanks a lot! I read the bug report and the solution for it, but i didn’t really know how to implement the solution. this was very helpful. thanks again!

suggestion, though: apt-get build-dep pdftk did help me with building the package, but there were still unmet dependencies after i installed the patched pdftk using dpkg. to fix those unmet dependencies i did the standard:

apt-get -f install

hope this might help others like me.

By: Drew S.

Drew S. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:24:05 +0000

This article is a TREMENDOUS help. As you’ve probably noticed a number of us are having to deal with institutions *cough*Vanguard*cough* that give tax information as FDF files instead of doing the work of building the PDF themselves (which as you show at the top, is trivial and would save us all some headache).

Anyway, I had two suggestions for the guide. People doing this from many distros will want to run two commands before they start:

apt-get install dpkg-dev
This installs the dpkg-source for source-manhandling done in the downloading step

apt-get build-dep pdftk
This ensures all the necessary pre-reqs are installed for the compilation step

Thanks again!

By: Mark M

Mark M — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:19:48 +0000

I also had to install quilt and gcj. After that, everything worked like a charm. Thanks to everyone who contributed for your help.

By: Fred Buhl

Fred Buhl — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:56:50 +0000

Thanks 1E+06! Saw the bug report, but lacked the patch-fu…

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