How To Install bluez-cups on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-cups
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bluez-cups
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.