Re: How to install pdfseparate?

On 7/29/25 12:48, William Dudley wrote:
> I wish to install pdfseparate.
> An online search reveals a FreeBSD man page for it,
> but I cannot figure out how to install it.
> 
> pkg search pdfseparate returns nothing.
> /usr/ports/textproc does not have a pdfseparate directory.
> 
> How does one install this in FreeBSD?  I'm running 13.5-RELEASE.

   graphics/poppler-utils installs bin/pdfseparate. Maybe others? I 
don't know how to search which pkg installs a file before the package is 
installed. print/miktex also has its own bin/miktex-pdfseparate but I 
haven't looked into similarities/differences and it only seems to be 
getting built for amd64 in case you are on another architecture.
   You can often run grep on a local ports tree with a command such as 
`find /usr/ports/ -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep -H pdfseparate {} 
\;`. Ports that still populate pkg-plist will be easy to search, ports 
that populate that as a variable from its Makefile require slightly 
broadening the search, and ports that dynamically create pkg-plist from 
its build directory during build cannot be searched without the build 
being executed (thought that wasn't supposed to generally be allowed but 
I find a # of ports do that); make generate-plist should help and should 
also pick other obscurities like searching for manpages which can be 
specified separate from an existing pkg-plist if memory serves and will 
be much slower than just reading text files.
  You can also try internet searches at freshports.org such as 
https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=pkg-plist&method=match&query=pdfseparate

> Thanks,
> Bill Dudley
> This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

   Sounds like a correlation/causation misunderstanding. Only sending 
attachment-free plaintext emails when just sending a text message that 
needs no special formatting would help give more trust in the message 
and also make the message over 60% smaller though if size/space matters 
then dropping the signature when the 'From' field is properly populated 
on the email would save 13%-18% itself.