qpdfview command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qpdfview command not found error message

Introduction

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

qpdfview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qpdfview: command not found

Solutions to qpdfview: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qpdfview is provided by qpdfview package.

qpdfview is:

qpdfview is a simple tabbed document viewer which uses the Poppler library for PDF rendering and CUPS for printing and provides a clear and simple Qt graphical user interface. Support for the DjVu and PostScript formats can be added via plugins.

Current features include:

Outline, properties and thumbnail panes
Scale, rotate and fit
Fullscreen and presentation views
Continuous and multi-page layouts
Search for text (PDF and DjVu only)
Configurable toolbars
SyncTeX support (PDF only)
Partial annotation support (PDF only, Poppler version 0.20.1 or newer)
Partial form support (PDF only)
Persistent per-file settings
Support for DjVu and PostScript documents via plugins

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

sudo apt-get -y install qpdfview

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

You can also use apt command to install qpdfview.

sudo apt -y install qpdfview

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

sudo aptitude install qpdfview

Summary

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