Hi,
I am a brand-new Fedora user and really like the quality and refinement of the OS. But it is missing a couple apps (mat2 & pdftk) that I use a lot (I am coming to Fedora from Debian). Can anyone suggest some equivalent apps that will perform the same basic functions?
It would help to find suggestions if you explained what those missing apps did.
did you checked https://flathub.org/ ?
search/pdf
search/metadata
pdftk exists in fedora, don’t know if it is the same
pdftk-java.noarch : GCJ-free toolkit for manipulating PDF documents
if you really want/need to use mat2 you could use/install it manually
pdftk was retired from Fedora. I can’t see why, but usually it’s because the maintainer didn’t want to look after it anymore or it didn’t build anymore, or if it was no longer actively developed:
pdftk is a command-line PDF editor which allows user to merge and separate by page PDFs
mat2 is a command-line Metadata Anonymization Toolkit which allows viewing and removal of metadata for privacy reasons in all kinds of documents
For pdftk, you can use qpdf; it supports selecting pages and joining PDFs:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qpdf
For mat2, you might be able to use Obfuscate or Metadata Cleaner. They’re not packaged in Fedora, but are available on Flathub:
These are some great suggestions. Thank you!
Wish I didn’t have to use Flatpak, but it appears there’s no choice for some apps.