How To Install lprint on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lprint on Fedora 34.
What is lprint
LPrint is a label printer application for macOS and Linux. Basically, LPrint is a print spooler optimized for label printing. It accepts “raw” print data as well as PNG images (like those used for shipping labels by most shippers’ current web APIs) and has built-in “drivers” to send the print data to USB and network-connected label printers.
We can use yum or dnf to install lprint on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lprint.
Install lprint on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install lprint using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lprint
Install lprint on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install lprint using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lprint
How To Uninstall lprint on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the lprint package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lprint
lprint Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/lprint
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/0f2bf95bb529907ca19b05a7827d6db9941868
/usr/share/doc/lprint
/usr/share/doc/lprint/CHANGES.md
/usr/share/doc/lprint/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/lprint/DESIGN.md
/usr/share/doc/lprint/DOCUMENTATION.md
/usr/share/doc/lprint/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/lprint
/usr/share/licenses/lprint/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/lprint/NOTICE
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-cancel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-default.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-delete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-devices.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-drivers.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-jobs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-modify.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-printers.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-shutdown.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-status.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint-submit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lprint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/lprint.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lprint on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.