How To Install system-config-printer-libs on CentOS 8

system-config-printer-libs is Libraries and shared code for printer administration tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-config-printer-libs on CentOS 8.

What is `system-config-printer-libs`

The common code used by both the graphical and non-graphical parts of the configuration tool.

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

Install system-config-printer-libs 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 system-config-printer-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install system-config-printer-libs

Install system-config-printer-libs 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 system-config-printer-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install system-config-printer-libs

How To Uninstall system-config-printer-libs on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the system-config-printer-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove system-config-printer-libs

system-config-printer-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/cupshelpers
/etc/cupshelpers/preferreddrivers.xml
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/com.redhat.NewPrinterNotification.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/com.redhat.PrinterDriversInstaller.conf
/usr/bin/scp-dbus-service
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers-1.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/cupshelpers.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/installdriver.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/openprinting.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/ppds.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/__pycache__/xmldriverprefs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/cupshelpers.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/installdriver.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/openprinting.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/ppds.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cupshelpers/xmldriverprefs.py
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing.service
/usr/share/licenses/system-config-printer-libs
/usr/share/licenses/system-config-printer-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/system-config-printer.mo
/usr/share/system-config-printer
/usr/share/system-config-printer/OpenPrintingRequest.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/PhysicalDevice.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncconn.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncipp.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/asyncpk1.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/authconn.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/config.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/cupspk.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/debug.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/dnssdresolve.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/errordialogs.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/firewallsettings.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/gtkinklevel.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/gui.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/installpackage.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/jobviewer.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/killtimer.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/monitor.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/newprinter.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/options.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/optionwidgets.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdcache.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdippstr.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/ppdsloader.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/printerproperties.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/probe_printer.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/pysmb.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/scp-dbus-service.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/smburi.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/statereason.py
/usr/share/system-config-printer/timedops.py

References

system-config-printer-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-config-printer-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.