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

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

Introduction

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

What is `cups-lpd.x86_64`

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. This is the package that provides standard lpd emulation.

We can use yum to install cups-lpd.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-lpd.x86_64.

Install cups-lpd.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-lpd.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-lpd.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove cups-lpd.x86_64

cups-lpd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups-lpd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/man/man8/cups-lpd.8.gz

References

cups-lpd.x86_64 website

Summary

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