How To Install cups-filters-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters-libs on Rocky Linux 8. cups-filters-libs is OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends - cupsfilters and fontembed libraries

Introduction

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

What is cups-filters-libs

This package provides cupsfilters and fontembed libraries.

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

Install cups-filters-libs 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-filters-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cups-filters-libs

Install cups-filters-libs 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-filters-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-filters-libs

How To Uninstall cups-filters-libs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove cups-filters-libs

cups-filters-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/73d262592a5cd40a2233a751389adf885593d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/c6d829f9a5baf286684f2d98b8100e2c2af8d6
/usr/lib/libcupsfilters.so.1
/usr/lib/libcupsfilters.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libfontembed.so.1
/usr/lib/libfontembed.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters/fontembed/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/2651be9b78e38e25a49892bef04bf1cf66c130
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/d716d9a477cfc66805fd87dd7f0556aa1aab69
/usr/lib64/libcupsfilters.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcupsfilters.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libfontembed.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfontembed.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters/fontembed/README

References

Summary

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