How To Install paps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install paps.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. paps.x86_64 is Plain Text to PostScript converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install paps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `paps.x86_64`

paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango.

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

Install paps.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 paps.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paps.x86_64

How To Uninstall paps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the paps.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove paps.x86_64

paps.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cups
/etc/cups/paps.convs
/usr/bin/paps
/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopaps
/usr/share/doc/paps-0.6.8
/usr/share/doc/paps-0.6.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/paps-0.6.8/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/paps-0.6.8/README
/usr/share/doc/paps-0.6.8/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/paps.1.gz

References

paps.x86_64 website

Summary

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