How To Install cups-core-drivers on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-core-drivers on Ubuntu 20.04. cups-core-drivers is Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - driverless printing Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - driverless printing

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-core-drivers on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `cups-core-drivers`

cups-core-drivers is:

The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types.

This package provides the parts of CUPS which are needed for driverless printing on IPP printers with common data formats. Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: cups-core-drivers Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.3.1-9ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: net Source: cups Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 223 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcups2 (= 2.3.1-9ubuntu1), cups-daemon (>= 2.3.1-9ubuntu1), cups-filters-core-drivers Recommends: avahi-daemon Breaks: cups-server-common (« 2.1.0-7~) Replaces: cups-server-common (« 2.1.0-7~) Filename: pool/main/c/cups/cups-core-drivers_2.3.1-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 28116 MD5sum: 1e6a74339719da69fc03ecb061c580c6 SHA1: 2818942ff1b4a7fc19aa588e0974493d41edabb5 SHA256: ee44744b982b3b06e4b1633915f8cfd49b1ce9ece1869df2d68488402f0931da Homepage: https://www.cups.org/ Description-en: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - driverless printing The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types.

There are three methods to install cups-core-drivers on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cups-core-drivers 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-core-drivers using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cups-core-drivers

Install cups-core-drivers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cups-core-drivers

Install cups-core-drivers 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 cups-core-drivers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cups-core-drivers

How To Uninstall cups-core-drivers on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cups-core-drivers

Uninstall cups-core-drivers And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cups-core-drivers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cups-core-drivers

Remove cups-core-drivers Configurations and Data

To remove cups-core-drivers configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cups-core-drivers

Remove cups-core-drivers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cups-core-drivers

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-core-drivers package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.