How To Install cups-filters on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters on Kali Linux.
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 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 cups-filters Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cups-filters using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cups-filtersInstall cups-filters Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cups-filters using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cups-filtersInstall cups-filters 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install cups-filters using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cups-filtersHow To Uninstall cups-filters on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cups-filters package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cups-filtersUninstall cups-filters And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cups-filters and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cups-filtersRemove cups-filters Configurations and Data
To remove cups-filters configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cups-filtersRemove 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-filtersDependencies
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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
