How To Install cups-browsed on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-browsed on Debian 10.
What is cups-browsed
cups-browsed is:
This package provides cups-browsed, a daemon which browses the Bonjour broadcasts of shared remote CUPS printers and makes the printers available locally, replacing the CUPS broadcasting/browsing which was dropped in CUPS 1.6.x. This way the old behavior of having the remote printers available automatically is now re-implemented with Bonjour.
cups-browsed is also useful with a CUPS >= 1.6 client to allow the latter to browse the printer list of CUPS < 1.6 servers (by using the old ‘cups’ protocol in BrowseRemoteProtocols).
cups-browsed is also useful with a CUPS >= 1.6 server to allow CUPS < 1.6 clients to browse its printer list (by using the old ‘cups’ protocol in BrowseLocalProtocols).
There are three methods to install cups-browsed on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cups-browsed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cups-browsed using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cups-browsed
Install cups-browsed Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cups-browsed using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cups-browsed
Install cups-browsed 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cups-browsed using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cups-browsed
How To Uninstall cups-browsed on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cups-browsed package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cups-browsed
Uninstall cups-browsed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cups-browsed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cups-browsed
Remove cups-browsed Configurations and Data
To remove cups-browsed configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cups-browsed
Remove cups-browsed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cups-browsed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cups-browsed
Dependencies
cups-browsed have the following dependencies:
- libavahi-client3
- libavahi-common3
- libavahi-glib1
- libc6
- libcups2
- libcupsfilters1
- libglib2.0-0
- libldap-2.4-2
- cups-daemon
- lsb-base
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-browsed package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.