How To Install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 on Ubuntu 20.04. libcpdb-libs-frontend1 is Common Print Dialog Backends - Interface Library for Frontends

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libcpdb-libs-frontend1

libcpdb-libs-frontend1 is:

The Common Print Dialog Backends project provides a D-Bus interface so that the print dialogs of GUI applications and the communication with the print technologies (CUPS/IPP, Google Cloud Print, Save to File, …) are put into separate executables to be separately exchangeable.

The print dialogs of the different GUI toolkits and applications (GTK, Qt, LibreOffice, …) are the frontends and to communicate with the different print technologies they use common backends. This way one simply adds new backends for new print technologies and updates the backends for changes in the print technologies, and immediately all applications are up-to-date, without need of modifying the code of the GUI toolkits or applications.

This package contains the library which provides the functions needed by the frontends (print dialogs).

There are three methods to install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcpdb-libs-frontend1

Install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcpdb-libs-frontend1

Install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcpdb-libs-frontend1

How To Uninstall libcpdb-libs-frontend1 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libcpdb-libs-frontend1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcpdb-libs-frontend1

Uninstall libcpdb-libs-frontend1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcpdb-libs-frontend1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcpdb-libs-frontend1

Remove libcpdb-libs-frontend1 Configurations and Data

To remove libcpdb-libs-frontend1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcpdb-libs-frontend1

Remove libcpdb-libs-frontend1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcpdb-libs-frontend1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcpdb-libs-frontend1

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcpdb-libs-frontend1 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.