pdfresurrect command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

pdfresurrect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pdfresurrect: command not found

Solutions to pdfresurrect: command not found

How To Fix pdfresurrect: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pdfresurrect is provided by pdfresurrect package.

pdfresurrect is:

PDFResurrect is a tool for analyzing and manipulating revisions to PDF documents (sometimes known as Adobe Acrobat files). The PDF format allows for previous changes to be retained in a revised version of the document, thereby keeping a running history of revisions to the document.

This tool extracts all previous revisions while also producing a summary of changes between revisions. It can also “scrub” or write data over the original instances of PDF objects that have been modified or deleted, in an effort to disguise information from previous versions that might not be intended for anyone else to read.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install pdfresurrect

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install pdfresurrect.

sudo apt -y install pdfresurrect

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install pdfresurrect

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pdfresurrect command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.