Sample Header Ad - 728x90

How do I upgrade Evince?

3 votes
2 answers
2150 views
I'm desperately looking for the integration of keyboard shortcuts to add notes and highlighting to PDF documents in Evince on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This feature comes with evince 3.31.0 but Ubuntu 18.04 ships 3.28.4. What I tried so far: - Installed ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 repository and tried to upgrade from there as suggested [here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/310974/how-can-i-install-the-latest-version-of-evince) . The package manager insists that I already have the newest version. - Install the newest version of evince from source. Configuring, making and installing works fine, but
evince: symbol lookup error: evince: undefined symbol: ev_view_set_enable_spellchecking
- install *exactly* the version that ships the feature, 3.31.0, from source, same issue as above. - try the previous, but disable spell checks upon configuring with --without-gspell as suggested [here](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/564110/how-to-install-and-run-evince-from-tar-gz) , but the error is the same. Any help would be appreciated since I (1) do not like other pdf viewers and (2) need the feature for commenting on publications. Thanks!
Asked by alodi (133 rep)
Feb 7, 2020, 09:52 AM
Last activity: Jun 12, 2022, 09:28 AM