# Install gnome-papers with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper, winget Document viewer for PDF and other document formats aimed at the GNOME desktop. Version 50.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-07. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install gir1.2-papers-4.0. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:gnome-papers ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gnome-papers ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add papers ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install papers ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: papers from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install papers ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: papers from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#papers ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pa/papers/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S papers ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: papers from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install papers ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: papers from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id DigitalScience.Papers -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: DigitalScience.Papers from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:gnome-papers - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 50.2 - **Source summary:** Document viewer for PDF and other document formats aimed at the GNOME desktop - **Homepage:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-07T14:59:01Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - papers (alias) - papers-previewer (alias) - papers-thumbnailer (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 50.2 ## Project history and usage Papers is GNOME's document viewer for PDF, DejaVu, TIFF, and comic-book archive formats. It continues the GNOME document-viewer lineage associated with Evince while moving the application to GTK 4, libadwaita, and a more adaptive interface. ### Project history Papers began as a hard fork and rename of Evince during the effort to modernize GNOME's core document viewer. Pablo Gomez's GNOME blog post explains that the work grew from downstream mobile and sizing patches, GTK 4 porting work, and many merge requests around making the viewer adaptive and touch-friendly. The repository preserves extensive Evince history and includes Evince news/security files alongside Papers-specific code. Its README describes Papers as a document viewer for multiple and single-page formats and points users to GNOME's welcome page and Flathub packaging. ### Adoption history Papers' adoption is significant inside GNOME because it represents the document viewer moving with the broader platform transition to GTK 4 and libadwaita. Distribution packaging under names such as `papers` and `gnome-papers` followed that GNOME transition, while package managers kept the command-line helpers for previewing and thumbnailing. ### How it is used Practitioners use Papers to read, search, annotate, print, preview, and thumbnail documents on GNOME systems. Desktop users mostly launch the graphical app, while packagers care about the `papers`, `papers-previewer`, and `papers-thumbnailer` executables and the document libraries they expose. ### Why package nerds care For package nerds, Papers is a useful case study in desktop app succession: a GNOME core app keeps compatibility with a long document-viewer history while changing toolkit generation, app identity, library names, backends, and package naming. That makes it important for downstream transitions from Evince-era dependencies. ### Timeline - 2005: Evince enters GNOME as the default document viewer lineage that Papers later inherits. - 2022: GTK 4 and mobile-oriented work on Evince-related branches accelerates. - 2024-01: Papers is submitted to GNOME Incubation as the renamed Evince fork. - 2025: Papers packages appear broadly under GNOME distribution naming. ### Related projects - Papers is related to Evince, Poppler, DjVuLibre, libarchive comic-book support, GTK 4, libadwaita, Nautilus thumbnailing, and GNOME's core application set. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - gir1.2-papers-4.0 - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-papers-4.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | GObject introspection data for the papers libraries | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Debian apt - libpapers-dev - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libpapers-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Document (Comic Books, DjVu, PDF) rendering library - development files | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Debian apt - libpapers-doc - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libpapers-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Document (Comic Books, DjVu, PDF) rendering library - documentation | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Debian apt - libppsdocument-4.0-5 - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libppsdocument-4.0-5 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Document (Comic Books, DjVu, PDF) rendering library | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Debian apt - libppsview-4.0-4 - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: libppsview-4.0-4 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Document (Comic Books, DjVu, PDF) rendering library - GTK widgets | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Debian apt - papers - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: papers from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | PDF document viewer for GNOME | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Debian apt - papers-common - 48.3-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: papers-common from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | PDF document viewer for GNOME - common files | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - Nix - papers: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/pa/papers/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - apk - papers - 50.2-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | simple document viewer for GNOME desktop | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - apk - papers-dev - 50.2-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | simple document viewer for GNOME desktop (development files) | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - apk - papers-doc - 50.2-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | simple document viewer for GNOME desktop (documentation) | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - apk - papers-lang - 50.2-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Languages for package papers | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - apk - papers-libs - 50.2-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers-libs from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | simple document viewer for GNOME desktop (libraries) | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - apk - papers-nautilus - 50.2-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: papers-nautilus from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | papers (Nautilus extension) | https://apps.gnome.org/Papers/ - dnf - papers - 49.7-5.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: papers from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | View multipage documents | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers - dnf - papers-devel - 49.7-5.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: papers-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Support for developing backends for the Papers document viewer | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gnome-papers.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gnome-papers.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph