How To Install cups-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cups-devel.x86_64 is CUPS printing system - development environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is cups-devel.x86_64

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. This is the development package for creating additional printer drivers, and other CUPS services.

We can use yum to install cups-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-devel.x86_64.

Install cups-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cups-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall cups-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cups-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cups-devel.x86_64

cups-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/rpm/macros.cups
/usr/bin/cups-config
/usr/include/cups
/usr/include/cups/adminutil.h
/usr/include/cups/array.h
/usr/include/cups/backend.h
/usr/include/cups/cgi.h
/usr/include/cups/cups.h
/usr/include/cups/dir.h
/usr/include/cups/file.h
/usr/include/cups/help-index.h
/usr/include/cups/http.h
/usr/include/cups/ipp.h
/usr/include/cups/language.h
/usr/include/cups/mime.h
/usr/include/cups/ppd.h
/usr/include/cups/ppdc.h
/usr/include/cups/raster.h
/usr/include/cups/sidechannel.h
/usr/include/cups/transcode.h
/usr/include/cups/versioning.h
/usr/lib64/libcups.so
/usr/lib64/libcupscgi.so
/usr/lib64/libcupsimage.so
/usr/lib64/libcupsmime.so
/usr/lib64/libcupsppdc.so
/usr/share/man/man1/cups-config.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.