How To Install x2goserver-printing on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2goserver-printing on CentOS 8.
What is x2goserver-printing
The X2Go Server printing package provides client-side printing support for X2Go. This package has to be installed on X2Go servers that shall be able to pass X2Go print jobs on to the X2Go client. This package co-operates with the cups-x2go CUPS backend. If CUPS server and X2Go server are hosted on different machines, then make sure you install this package on the X2Go server(s) (and the cups-x2go package on the CUPS server).
We can use yum or dnf to install x2goserver-printing on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x2goserver-printing.
Install x2goserver-printing 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 x2goserver-printing using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install x2goserver-printing
Install x2goserver-printing 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 x2goserver-printing using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install x2goserver-printing
How To Uninstall x2goserver-printing on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the x2goserver-printing package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove x2goserver-printing
x2goserver-printing Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/x2goprint
/usr/share/man/man8/x2goprint.8.gz
/usr/share/x2go/versions/VERSION.x2goserver-printing
/usr/share/x2go/x2gofeature.d/x2goserver-printing.features
/var/spool/x2goprint
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2goserver-printing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.