HOW TO INSTALL EVINCE LINUX PDF VIEWER IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A DOCUMENT VIEWER FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Evince Linux PDF viewer in Ubuntu 16.04. Evince is open source application designed for multiple format document viewer. It’s an nice light weight application supports documents formats like PDF, tiff, Postscript, XPS and so on. This application was specially designed for GNOME based desktop environment. Like any other document viewer evince comes with some nice features like search for phrase and it will highlight and show number of result found, print the opened document, able to open encrypted PDF documents and so on.

Evince linux pdf viewer was developed by The Evince team and released under GNU license. Evince document viewer is a cross platform application available for operating system’s like Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows.

Follow the below steps to install Evince Linux PDF viewer in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Document Viewer for Linux

Before start the installation of Evince linux pdf viewer let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                    
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                             
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now let’s go ahead and install Evince document viewer using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install evince   # Install Evince linux PDF Viewer Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3
Suggested packages:
  unrar
The following packages will be upgraded:
  evince libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 389 not upgraded.
Need to get 498 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 evince amd64 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1 [153 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libevdocument3-4 amd64 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1 [228 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libevview3-3 amd64 3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1 [117 kB]
Fetched 498 kB in 2s (226 kB/s)   
(Reading database ... 200825 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../evince_3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking evince (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) over (3.18.2-1ubuntu4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libevdocument3-4_3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libevdocument3-4:amd64 (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) over (3.18.2-1ubuntu4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libevview3-3_3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libevview3-3:amd64 (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) over (3.18.2-1ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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 libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libevdocument3-4:amd64 (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Setting up libevview3-3:amd64 (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Setting up evince (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...

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

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l evince   # 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  evince                               3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1       amd64                   Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer

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Now to open the Evince document viewer just type the command evince on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ evince   # Open the Evince Linux PDF Viewer application

PACKAGE VERSION :

You can also open the Evince document viewer application graphically using search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the application you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r evince   # Uninstall the Evince Package
(Reading database ... 200824 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing evince (3.18.2-1ubuntu4.1) ...
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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