How To Install openprinting-ppds on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install openprinting-ppds on Debian 11. openprinting-ppds is OpenPrinting printer support - PostScript PPD files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openprinting-ppds on Debian 11.

What is openprinting-ppds

openprinting-ppds is:

This package includes a collection of free PostScript Printer Description files for PostScript (and clone) printers from various manufacturers, as distributed by OpenPrinting.

If you have non-PostScript printers, the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds (or foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine), hplip and the printer-driver-* packages are the ones you need; this package won’t be of much help to you.

Some manufacturers distribute PPD files for their printers under non-free licenses; those are not included in this package, but may be available from the manufacturer’s website, included on a CD or other media with the printer, or downloadable from the OpenPrinting web site (even automatically if the printer setup tool supports it).

There are three methods to install openprinting-ppds on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install openprinting-ppds Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openprinting-ppds using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openprinting-ppds

Install openprinting-ppds Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openprinting-ppds using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openprinting-ppds

Install openprinting-ppds 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install openprinting-ppds using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openprinting-ppds

How To Uninstall openprinting-ppds on Debian 11

To uninstall only the openprinting-ppds package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openprinting-ppds

Uninstall openprinting-ppds And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openprinting-ppds and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openprinting-ppds

Remove openprinting-ppds Configurations and Data

To remove openprinting-ppds configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openprinting-ppds

Remove openprinting-ppds configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openprinting-ppds configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openprinting-ppds

Dependencies

openprinting-ppds have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openprinting-ppds package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.