How To Install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 10

Learn how to install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 10 with this tutorial. printer-driver-cups-pdf is printer driver for PDF writing via CUPS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 10.

What is printer-driver-cups-pdf

printer-driver-cups-pdf is:

CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS.

Documents are written to a configurable directory (by default to ~/PDF) or can be further manipulated by a post-processing command.

Desktop users might find it simpler to use the Print To File feature provided by GTK+ and QT or the LibreOffice’s Export to PDF feature.

There are three methods to install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install printer-driver-cups-pdf Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-cups-pdf using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install printer-driver-cups-pdf

Install printer-driver-cups-pdf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-cups-pdf using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install printer-driver-cups-pdf

Install printer-driver-cups-pdf 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 printer-driver-cups-pdf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install printer-driver-cups-pdf

How To Uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 10

To uninstall only the printer-driver-cups-pdf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove printer-driver-cups-pdf

Uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove printer-driver-cups-pdf

Remove printer-driver-cups-pdf Configurations and Data

To remove printer-driver-cups-pdf configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge printer-driver-cups-pdf

Remove printer-driver-cups-pdf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove printer-driver-cups-pdf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge printer-driver-cups-pdf

Dependencies

printer-driver-cups-pdf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-cups-pdf package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.