How To Install cups-ipptool on CentOS 8

cups-ipptool is CUPS printing system - tool for performing IPP requests

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-ipptool on CentOS 8.

What is cups-ipptool

Sends IPP requests to the specified URI and tests and/or displays the results.

We can use yum or dnf to install cups-ipptool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-ipptool.

Install cups-ipptool on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cups-ipptool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cups-ipptool

Install cups-ipptool on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cups-ipptool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-ipptool

How To Uninstall cups-ipptool on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cups-ipptool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cups-ipptool

cups-ipptool Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ippfind
/usr/bin/ipptool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/d875cb93936ed63371d053012315140ca79eee
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/ee0c3c4610a45308212cb8ff43dff6755fffa8
/usr/share/cups/ipptool
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/color.jpg
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/create-printer-subscription.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/document-a4.pdf
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/document-a4.ps
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/document-letter.pdf
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/document-letter.ps
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/get-completed-jobs.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/get-jobs.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/get-notifications.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/get-printer-attributes.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/get-subscriptions.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/gray.jpg
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/ipp-1.1.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/ipp-2.0.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/ipp-2.1.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/ipp-2.2.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/ipp-everywhere.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/onepage-a4.pdf
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/onepage-a4.ps
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/onepage-letter.pdf
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/onepage-letter.ps
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/print-job-deflate.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/print-job-gzip.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/print-job.test
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/testfile.jpg
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/testfile.pcl
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/testfile.pdf
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/testfile.ps
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/testfile.txt
/usr/share/cups/ipptool/validate-job.test
/usr/share/man/man1/ipptool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipptoolfile.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-ipptool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.