HOW TO INSTALL ATRIL DOCUMENT VIEWER LINUX APPLICATION IN UBUNTU 16.04

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Atril document viewer Linux application in Ubuntu 16.04. Atril is a open source document viewer Linux application used to simply display documents. It’s an nice light weight MATE desktop environment application comes with various features mentioned below :

• Supports different types of documents i.e. PDF, XPS, DJVU, CBR Comics and many more.
• You can use Atril document viewer Linux application to print documents.
• You can also find some more basic features in this application like copy texts, bookmark pages, highlight texts, Search for any text.
• Can use keyboard shortcuts to copy, paste, bookmarks and many more.

This application is released under GNU GPL license. For more information on Atril you can visit the official website. For any bugs & feedback on Atril you can visit Here!

Follow the below steps to install Atril document viewer Linux application in Ubuntu 16.04

Before we start the installation of Atril document viewer let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories

After update the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Atril document viewer Linux application. To install so we don’t have to install any 3rd party PPA repository as it’s an part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So use the below command to install the same.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install atril   # Install the Atril application
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  atril-common fonts-mathjax libatrildocument3 libatrilview3 libcaja-extension1 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjs-mathjax libmate-desktop-2-17 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-1.0-common mate-desktop-common
Suggested packages:
  caja unrar fonts-mathjax-extras libjs-mathjax-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  atril atril-common fonts-mathjax libatrildocument3 libatrilview3 libcaja-extension1 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjs-mathjax libmate-desktop-2-17 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
  libwebkitgtk-1.0-common mate-desktop-common
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 216 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 95.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   ---> Enter 'y' to continue the installation

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Atril document viewer package Linux application. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l  atril   # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  atril                                1.12.2-1ubuntu0.1       amd64                   MATE document viewer

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Now to open the application just type the command atril on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ atril   # Open the Atril application

Atril application version :

You can also open the Atril document viewer Linux application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the Atril application use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r  atril   # Uninstall the Atril document viewer application
(Reading database ... 250790 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing atril (1.12.2-1ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.48.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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