Installation

To install booktui you will need poppler, to install poppler follow the following instructions

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S poppler

Debian based

sudo apt-get purge build
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpoppler-dev

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If you want to read epub files too you'll need epub2txt

Arch Linux

yay -S epub2txt

Other distro

git clone https://github.com/kevinboone/epub2txt2.git
cd epub2txt2
make
sudo make install

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Finally the booktui installation

All Distro

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/UnityTheCoder/BookTUI.git
cd BookTUI
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo sudo ln -s ~/BookTUI/main.py /usr/bin/booktui
chmod +x /usr/bin/booktui

Uninstallation

rm -rf ~/BookTUI
sudo rm /usr/bin/booktui

Updating

booktui update

Changelog

- New UI
- EPUB support

Usage

The usage is really simple

Usage: booktui file.pdf/.epub [OPTIONAL: page_number]
KEYS: 
    -> = Next page
    <- = Previous page
    Q = exit
    :search = Search a word in text
    N = next found word