[SOLVED] RHEL 7 PDFtk which is dependent on libgcj no longer supported at v7

TimHeeley · 06-02-2015, 08:44 AM

I have discovered that libgcj is no longer supported at version 7 of RHEL/CentOS and so PDFtk will not work.

Does anyone know of a similar command line substitute with similar functionality? Initially the functionality I want to use comprises of: overlay (background)
page selection (page-1-?)
compress/uncompress
Add/Update bookmarks and Metadata

dijetlo · 06-04-2015, 05:39 AM

Hey Tim

Welcome to Linux questions.
You're not really explaining your use case but when we run into this problem in a production environment, we normally stand up a virtual server running a compliant version of the OS and install our problematic packages in that. If I'm not mistaken, a CentOS 6.6 Final image would support the package through normal distribution channels.

ewheelerinc · 08-18-2016, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by TimHeeley

I have discovered that libgcj is no longer supported at version 7 of RHEL/CentOS and so PDFtk will not work.

Does anyone know of a similar command line substitute with similar functionality? Initially the functionality I want to use comprises of: overlay (background)
page selection (page-1-?)
compress/uncompress
Add/Update bookmarks and Metadata

I was looking for the same fix and hadn't found anything. During my search I ran across this forum thread and thought I would reply with how we fixed it for our install:

It turns out that libgcj.so.10 in CentOS 6 is compatible with CentOS 7 and this is the only dependency that appears to be missing in order to install pdftk. To simplify this, we built RPM packages, which you can find here: https://www.globallinuxsecurity.pro/...s-on-centos-7/

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Eric Wheeler