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Install PDFTk on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

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pdftk is missing from the official repository right now. That’s an issue for many people.

I needed PDFTK to be installed on Ubuntu (18.04) due to the need to manipulate PDFs. Unfortunately, because I used Laravel Forge, they only allow Ubuntu, and apparently PDFtk is not longer working with Ubuntu 18.04. There is a workaround! Follow the below to get it working.

There’s a workaround here: How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?

Quick and easy workaround

 

 

UPDATED 8/2/2020

Try sudo snap install pdftk

Set up symlink so it works!

sudo ln -fs /snap/pdftk/current/usr/bin/pdftk /usr/bin/pdftk

The below seems not to work any more.

In SSH on your Ubuntu 18.04 server, do the below:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pdftk/pdftk_2.02-4build1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-6/libgcj17_6.4.0-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/libgcj-common_6.4-3ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i pdftk_2.02-4build1_amd64.deb libgcj17_6.4.0-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb libgcj-common_6.4-3ubuntu1_all.deb

Then type ‘pdftk’, it should come up.

Hope that helps!

Remove all WooCommerce Sale Prices at once

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One of my clients runs a WooCommerce website on WordPress and has 450 products on it, he went in and added a sale price for every single product, so basically every product now is at sale price, not regular price. He now wants to remove all of the sale prices completely and return the website to how it was before.

The problem with removing sale prices is there’s really no fast way of completely removing them, especially if you’ve set up a schedule, you need to go into every product individually and remove them so that it returns to the normal prices. I figured out a way to do it fast, using phpMyAdmin and a free plugin.

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Top 5 Business WordPress Themes for March 2016

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March has seen a decent amount of new WordPress themes hit the market, some are absolute rubbish, abusing every element of jQuery they can. Using animations and preloaders and everything in between.

What ever happened to good, simple, fast design without the need for over-the-top animations? Who knows, every month they’re getting crazier and the amount of work needed to make a template work is usually longer than coding it from scratch.

Anyway! I’ve trawled through the themes on the various websites and in my opinion, these are the best WordPress themes on offer for March 2016.

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