How To Install cups-devel on CentOS 8

cups-devel is CUPS printing system - development environment CUPS printing system - development environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-devel on CentOS 8.

What is cups-devel

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX\xae operating systems. This is the development package for creating additional printer drivers, and other CUPS services. cups-devel 1 2.2.6 38.el8 x86_64 149 k cups-2.2.6-38.el8.src.rpm appstream CUPS printing system - development environment http LGPLv2 CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX\xae operating systems. This is the development package for creating additional printer drivers, and other CUPS services.

We can use yum or dnf to install cups-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-devel.

Install cups-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cups-devel

Install cups-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-devel

How To Uninstall cups-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove cups-devel

cups-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/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/cups.h
/usr/include/cups/dir.h
/usr/include/cups/file.h
/usr/include/cups/http.h
/usr/include/cups/ipp.h
/usr/include/cups/language.h
/usr/include/cups/ppd.h
/usr/include/cups/pwg.h
/usr/include/cups/raster.h
/usr/include/cups/sidechannel.h
/usr/include/cups/transcode.h
/usr/include/cups/versioning.h
/usr/lib/libcups.so
/usr/lib/libcupscgi.so
/usr/lib/libcupsimage.so
/usr/lib/libcupsmime.so
/usr/lib/libcupsppdc.so
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.cups
/usr/share/man/man1/cups-config.1.gz
/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/cups.h
/usr/include/cups/dir.h
/usr/include/cups/file.h
/usr/include/cups/http.h
/usr/include/cups/ipp.h
/usr/include/cups/language.h
/usr/include/cups/ppd.h
/usr/include/cups/pwg.h
/usr/include/cups/raster.h
/usr/include/cups/sidechannel.h
/usr/include/cups/transcode.h
/usr/include/cups/versioning.h
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.cups
/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 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.