I downloaded the new poppler 0.15 tar ball and i built it from source successfully but when trying
dpkg -l | grep poppler
it outputs
ii libpoppler-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library -- development files ii libpoppler-glib-dev 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library -- development files (GLib interface) ii libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library) ii libpoppler-glib5 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library) ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1ubuntu1 PDF rendering library rc libpoppler6 0.14.2.is.0.14.1-0ubuntu1 PDF rendering library ii libpoppler7 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF rendering library ii poppler-utils 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1 PDF utilitites (based on libpoppler)
So AFAIK this means that the new version is not installed !!
Answer
I figured out the problem. dpkg will only show the binary *.debpackages
as installed. If you just ./configure && make && make install
it will not show up in dpkg. so I put this prefix ./configure --prefix=/usr
while building.
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Wazery , Answer Author : Wuffers