(re)build epdfinfo progam fails because poppler-private headers not found

I had issues with `PDF Tools` and recently I got a message that `epdfinfo` needed to be rebuild, which I thought might fix my issues with PDF Tools thinking that my pdfs are broken. But it fails when trying to compile with the following message: > error: cannot find necessary poppler-private header System: + KDE Neon 5.25 + GNU Emacs 26.3 + all dependencies that are listed are already installed. Can anybody suggest what might be going on here? or just how to fix it?

I had a similar problem a month or so ago but I think it was fixed in `pdf-tools`. Perhaps the comments under this issue will help: [https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/708](https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/708)

Also [https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/706](https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/706) The consensus seems to be deleting it entirely and then re-fetching it from MELPA

Thanks. It worked. Weird part is that I had removed `pdf-tools` before but removing it again worked for some reason. So for anybody reading this I simply did these steps twice: + `M-x list-packages` and then remove `pdf-tools` + restart emacs.