How To Install cups-filesystem on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem on CentOS 8.
What is cups-filesystem
CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX\xae operating systems. This package provides some directories which are required by other packages that add CUPS drivers (i.e. filters, backends etc.).
We can use yum or dnf to install cups-filesystem on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-filesystem.
Install cups-filesystem 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-filesystem using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cups-filesystem
Install cups-filesystem 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-filesystem using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cups-filesystem
How To Uninstall cups-filesystem on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cups-filesystem package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cups-filesystem
cups-filesystem Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/cups
/usr/lib/cups/backend
/usr/lib/cups/driver
/usr/lib/cups/filter
/usr/share/cups
/usr/share/cups/data
/usr/share/cups/drv
/usr/share/cups/mime
/usr/share/cups/model
/usr/share/cups/ppdc
/usr/share/ppd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.