Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r11.3-489

Chapter 31. KDE Frameworks 5 Based Applications

Okular-22.12.2

Introduction to Okular

Okular is a document viewer for KDE. It can view documents of many types including PDF, PostScript, TIFF, Microsoft CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS and ePub.

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.

Package Information

Okular Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-5.103.0

Recommended

libkexiv2-22.12.2, libtiff-4.5.0, and Poppler-23.05.0 (built with Qt5, required for PDF support)

Optional

qca-2.3.6, discount, DjVuLibre, kpimtextedit, libspectre (for PostScript support), libchm, libepub, and Mobipocket

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/okular5

Installation of Okular

Install Okular by running the following commands:

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If any of the optional dependencies are installed, remove the associated reference in the SKIP_OPTIONAL environment variable. 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

SKIP_OPTIONAL='LibSpectre;CHM;LibZip;DjVuLibre;EPub;QMobipocket;Discount'

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -DFORCE_NOT_REQUIRED_DEPENDENCIES="$SKIP_OPTIONAL" \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: okular
Installed Library: libOkular5Core.so
Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/include/okular, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/Okular5, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/plugins/okular, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/okular, $KF5_PREFIX/share/okular, $KF5_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/okular, and

Short Descriptions

okular

is a document viewer