How To Install cups-filters on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters on Debian 11.
What is cups-filters
cups-filters is:
This package provides additional CUPS filters which are not provided by the CUPS project itself. This includes filters for a PDF based printing workflow.
This package contains the filters for printing with drivers/PPDs and for converting non-PDF input files to PDF.
There are three methods to install cups-filters on Debian 11. 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-filters 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-filters using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cups-filters
Install cups-filters Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cups-filters using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cups-filters
Install cups-filters 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-filters using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cups-filters
How To Uninstall cups-filters on Debian 11
To uninstall only the cups-filters package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cups-filters
Uninstall cups-filters And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cups-filters and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cups-filters
Remove cups-filters Configurations and Data
To remove cups-filters configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cups-filters
Remove cups-filters configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cups-filters configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cups-filters
Dependencies
cups-filters have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcups2
- libcupsfilters1
- libfontconfig1
- libfontembed1
- libgcc-s1
- libqpdf28
- libstdc++6
- cups-filters-core-drivers
- bc
- ghostscript
- poppler-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.