[poppler] PDF to PNG conversion

[William Bader]

> I do find it in the Amazon Linux distribution I'm using on my AWS instance, but it's version 0.26! I need the latest version...

poppler 0.26 is from mid-2014. https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html
Probably everything from your distribution is from the same time, so some of the libraries and build tools in the distribution might be old enough to give problems building the current poppler.
Supposedly Amazon Linux is based on RHEL/CentOS (but with different versions of some libraries so EPEL isn't helpful), and my CentOS 7.6 VM has poppler 0.26.5, so probably your Amazon Linux VM is similar to RHEL 7.
The RHEL/CentOS 7 equivalent of what Oliver suggested would be
  sudo yum install poppler-devel
On RHEL/CentOS 7 you can install all of the development tools with
  sudo yum group install "Development Tools"
but if you don't want to install anything unnecessary, you can start with
  sudo yum install gcc-c++

William

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Subject: Re: [poppler] PDF to PNG conversion

> Ok, I see a bit there. Unfortunately my knowledge on compiling is very limited so I don't know how to deal with the errors I get. I install cmake and make on my Debian installation but get the error "No CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER could be found." Even if I knew how to fix that

For that you just need to install the g++ package.

> I wouldn't be surprised there will be other errors with dependency issues and what not..

There will be more, but at least on a Debian system all you need is easily available.

Try

  sudo apt-get build-dep libpoppler-dev

that should go a long way.


> I do find it in the Amazon Linux distribution I'm using on my AWS instance, but it's version 0.26! I need the latest version...

Somebody else please take over, I have never worked with Amazon Linux.

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