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I am having trouble installing pdftk on an amzn-ami-2011.09.2.x86_64-ebs (ami-953b06e1) instance.

Since pdftk is not in the list of available packages I have tried to build it from source but failed due to a missing dependency – cgj, Java GNU Compiler, which also isn't available in the packages list.

I have already installed gcc, gcc-c++ and make besides the default packages.

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Running PDFtk on Amazon Linux is possible. I wrote a blog post about running PDFtk on AWS Lambda, which runs on Amazon Linux: https://lob.com/blog/aws-lambda-pdftk/.

It should be entirely possible to use the binary I compiled, along with libgcj.so to run PDFtk on an Amazon Linux EC2. The binary and shared library in this repository should work for you: https://github.com/lob/lambda-pdftk-example

Update

The basics steps to get PDFtk running on Amazon Linux are to compile it from source on CentOS 6, then copy the pdftk binary and libgcj.so.10 (usually located in /usr/lib64/ to your Amazon Linux machine.

Place the binary in a directory in your PATH, and libgcj.so.10 in a directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH so the system knows where to find them.

Alternatively you can run the binary directly:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libgcj.so.10 /path/to/pdftk --version

You can skip the compile step by using the binary and shared library in the bin/ directory of the Github project I linked to above.

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  • It would be better if you included the basic steps in the answer.
    – Ayan
    Jun 30, 2015 at 3:20
  • @Ayan good suggestion. Updated.
    – Marcus
    Jul 1, 2015 at 18:16
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You may be out of luck: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=96919

GCJ is not supported on the Amazon Linux AMI, which is why you are running into this problem.

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