How To Install cups-client on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-client on CentOS 8.
What is cups-client
CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX\xae operating systems. This package contains command-line client programs.
We can use yum or dnf to install cups-client on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-client.
Install cups-client on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cups-client using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cups-client
Install cups-client on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cups-client using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cups-client
How To Uninstall cups-client on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cups-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cups-client
cups-client Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cancel.cups
/usr/bin/lp.cups
/usr/bin/lpoptions
/usr/bin/lpq.cups
/usr/bin/lpr.cups
/usr/bin/lprm.cups
/usr/bin/lpstat.cups
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/ad14dc5c5db465269c15fcef2465c161588323
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/f797c23bc87173cbec519d7aea1ddbb8fdf6f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/ac036eb53a1c576fb9086a79f66aff3ff10f90
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/365cf4e4254f592a4ee86e91f9b474bcedc1db
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/0e533a7e3f8e34a8357d1ca3a27bcc2dc0e097
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/af1ad41e70daab63f8e23a53300ecfdaa574fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/bb01c1e9e39719400033e1256e0589bf852862
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/35ec19472168a74b1e4b95b79d0232f16a34bc
/usr/sbin/lpc.cups
/usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lp-cups.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lpoptions.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lpq-cups.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lpr-cups.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprm-cups.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lpc-cups.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-client on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.