Install PDFTk without touching up the permissions

install_pdftk.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This is based on this excellent gist https://gist.github.com/jvenator/9672772a631c117da151
# Nothing of this is my original work, except that I made the download link an argument
# to this script, so it installs on OSX 10.11
#
# Thank you jvenator & sethetter
set -e

error() { info "$1"; exit 1; }
have() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null; }
usage() { echo "usage: $0 LINK_TO_SETUP_PKG"; }

have "brew" || error "Need homebrew to be installed"
[[ "$1" ]] || { usage; exit 1; }
[[ "$1" == "--help" || "$1" == "-h" ]] && { usage; exit; }

 # remove old versions
rm -Rf ~/Downloads/pdftk_download.pkg
rm -Rf ~/Downloads/pdftk_package
rm -Rf /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk

# Download and extract the Mac OS X server install package
# OSX <10.11: https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.6-setup.pkg
# OSX 10.11: https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg
curl -o ~/Downloads/pdftk_download.pkg $1
pkgutil --expand ~/Downloads/pdftk_download.pkg ~/Downloads/pdftk_package
cd ~ && mkdir /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02 /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/bin /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/lib /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/share /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/share/man /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/share/man/man1

# Give the Payload file the proper gzip file extension and unzip it
mv ~/Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/payload.gz
gunzip ~/Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/payload.gz

# Use cpio to unarchive the resulting file
cd ~/Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/ && cpio -iv < ~/Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/payload && cd ~

# Move the relevant extracted files to their appropriate locations within the Cellar/pdftk directory
cd ~ && mv Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/bin/pdftk /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/bin/pdftk && mv Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/lib/* /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/lib/ && mv Downloads/pdftk_package/pdftk.pkg/man/pdftk.1 /usr/local/Cellar/pdftk/2.02/share/man/man1/pdftk.1

# link
brew link pdftk

echo "Done. You might wanna run 'brew doctor' to make sure everything is fine with your brew install"

this is amazing. thank you!

Thank you.

tyvm

For whatever reason on my system I had to comment out

# rm -Rf ~/Downloads/pdftk_download.pkg

and

# curl -o ~/Downloads/pdftk_download.pkg $1

and then DL and rename https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg manually to pdftk_download.pkg.