How To Install bluez-cups on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-cups on Kali Linux.

What is bluez-cups

bluez-cups is:

This package contains a driver to let CUPS print to Bluetooth-connected printers.

BlueZ is the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack. It is an Open Source project distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).

There are three methods to install bluez-cups on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bluez-cups Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bluez-cups using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bluez-cups

Install bluez-cups Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bluez-cups using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bluez-cups

Install bluez-cups Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bluez-cups using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bluez-cups

How To Uninstall bluez-cups on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the bluez-cups package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bluez-cups

Uninstall bluez-cups And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bluez-cups and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bluez-cups

Remove bluez-cups Configurations and Data

To remove bluez-cups configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bluez-cups

Remove bluez-cups configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bluez-cups configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bluez-cups

Dependencies

bluez-cups have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdbus-1-3
• libglib2.0-0
• cups

References

• bluez-cups website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-cups package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.