How To Install cups-lpd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-lpd on CentOS 8.
What is cups-lpd
CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX\xae operating systems. This is the package that provides standard lpd emulation.
We can use yum or dnf to install cups-lpd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-lpd.
Install cups-lpd 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-lpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cups-lpd
Install cups-lpd 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-lpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cups-lpd
How To Uninstall cups-lpd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cups-lpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cups-lpd
cups-lpd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/1acea381c092b98edff19d0656c2e99fbb5d5b
/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups-lpd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/man/man8/cups-lpd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-lpd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.