How To Install cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8. cups-filesystem is CUPS printing system - directory layout

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `cups-filesystem`

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. This package provides some directories which are required by other packages that add CUPS drivers (i.e. filters, backends etc.).

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

Install cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install cups-filesystem

Install cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install cups-filesystem

How To Uninstall cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove cups-filesystem

cups-filesystem Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/cups
/usr/lib/cups/backend
/usr/lib/cups/driver
/usr/lib/cups/filter
/usr/share/cups
/usr/share/cups/data
/usr/share/cups/drv
/usr/share/cups/mime
/usr/share/cups/model
/usr/share/cups/ppdc
/usr/share/ppd

References

cups-filesystem website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.