How To Install cups-pk-helper.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-pk-helper.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cups-pk-helper.x86_64 is A helper that makes system-config-printer use PolicyKit

Introduction

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

What is cups-pk-helper.x86_64

cups-pk-helper is an application which makes cups configuration interfaces available under control of PolicyKit.

We can use yum to install cups-pk-helper.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-pk-helper.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install cups-pk-helper.x86_64

How To Uninstall cups-pk-helper.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove cups-pk-helper.x86_64

cups-pk-helper.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism.conf
/usr/libexec/cups-pk-helper-mechanism
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism.service
/usr/share/doc/cups-pk-helper-0.2.6
/usr/share/doc/cups-pk-helper-0.2.6/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cups-pk-helper-0.2.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cups-pk-helper-0.2.6/NEWS
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/cups-pk-helper.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.opensuse.cupspkhelper.mechanism.policy

References

Summary

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