How to install Master PDF Editor in Kubuntu 12.04 (64bit)

Question

how to install Master PDF Editor under Kubuntu? I do not have it in the repositories... Please, could somebody write it step by step? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I had the same problem - the buy button in my Ubuntu Software Centre is greyed out and unclickable. To install other programs, I got around that by using the 'install' option in the menu bar, under File. But in this case, for Master PDF Editor, even that is greyed out!!

So the only option remaining for me was to use the terminal - but how?

The AskUbuntu.com anti-spam bot prevented me from posting the URL to the blog in Spanish which provided accurate instructions because I'm a "new user" according to it and hence, guilty (of spamming?) until proven innocent - who comes up with such programming logic?

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I paraphrase it's pith here:

for 32-bit Ubuntu, use

cd /opt && sudo wget http://code-industry.net/public/PDFEditor-1.7.01.i386.tar.gz && sudo tar -zxvf PDFEditor-1.7.01.i386.tar.gz && sudo rm PDFEditor-1.7.01.i386.tar.gz

for 64-bit Ubuntu, use

cd /opt && sudo wget http://code-industry.net/public/PDFEditor-1.7.01.x86_64.tar.gz && sudo tar -zxvf PDFEditor-1.7.01.x86_64.tar.gz && sudo rm PDFEditor-1.7.01.x86_64.tar.gz

But you MUST elevate privileges to root BEFORE using either command. But su won't work on Ubuntu (those instructions were for Fedora) - it will reject your password with an 'authentication failure' message. This is because Canonical has, by default, disabled the root account - if you can recall you were NOT REQUIRED to ENTER any password for ANY OTHER account other than your own, during installation.

There are two ways out of this conundrum

1. Set a password for the root user and then proceed as above

or

1. Use a work-around

Method 1 - Set a password for the root user

acknowledgements to http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/ubuntu-tips-how-to-login-using-su-command-su-gives-authentication-failure-error-message/

Question 1: I’m unable to login using su command. How to fix this?

By default, root account password is locked in Ubuntu. So, when you do su -, you’ll get Authentication failure error message as shown below.

$ su - Password: su: Authentication failure

Enable super user account password on Ubuntu

First, set a password for root user as shown below.

$ sudo passwd root [sudo] password for ramesh: Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully

Now with the new password you can login as super user with su command

Method 2 - use the work-around

acknowledgements to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/su-command-authentication-failure-753154/

ler0nldb2>sudo -i

[sudo] password for ler0nldb2:

root@ler0nldb2:~#

Code in Method 1 improved for security, heeding advise of user????? (whose comment or ID I can't see while making this edit - this UI needs improvement). Obviously s/he knows more about this matter than both, me and Emiliano. Thank you. (Watching the Open Source concept work like this gladdens my heart).

Answer 2

Tried downloading and installing PDF Mod? It allows you to modify PDFs, albeit its probably not the best of PDF editing tools but it's a start at least. Just open up software centre and type, 'PDF Mod' click install and wait.

Answer 3

Well, then the best answer I could offer boils down to downloading the tarball file from master pdf editor website, unzipping it and then running the executable file from there. This boils down to the following steps in terminal:

wget http://code-industry.net/public/PDFEditor-1.7.91.x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf PDFEditor-1.7.91.x86-64.tar.gz
cd /home/username/PDFEditor
./pdfeditor

If this fails, then I'm afraid I haven't the foggiest what I can say that will help you.