How To Install splix on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install splix on CentOS 8.
What is splix
This driver is usable by all printer devices which understand the QPDL (Quick Page Description Language) also known as SPL2 (Samsung Printer Language) language. It covers several Samsung, Xerox and Dell printers. Splix doesn’t support old SPL(1) printers.
We can use yum or dnf to install splix on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install splix.
Install splix 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 splix using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install splix
Install splix 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 splix using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install splix
How To Uninstall splix on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the splix package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove splix
splix Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/d5e108cd36512ac6a7c94ec83bb32a58c25166
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/627efc2dd0f7c5a864a56211f036dceed071e7
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoqpdl
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoqpdl
/usr/share/cups/drv/splix
/usr/share/cups/drv/splix/splix-dell.drv
/usr/share/cups/drv/splix/splix-lexmark.drv
/usr/share/cups/drv/splix/splix-samsung.drv
/usr/share/cups/drv/splix/splix-toshiba.drv
/usr/share/cups/drv/splix/splix-xerox.drv
/usr/share/doc/splix
/usr/share/doc/splix/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/splix/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/splix/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/splix
/usr/share/licenses/splix/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install splix on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.