How To Install cups-tea4cups on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-tea4cups on Kali Linux.
What is cups-tea4cups
Tea4CUPS is a CUPS backend wrapper which can capture print datas before they are sent to a printer and process, duplicate or dispatch them in a number of ways.
Tea4CUPS is the Swiss Army’s knife of the advanced CUPS administrator, and can easily replace or extend most of the existing specialized CUPS backends (pdf, email, ftp, etc…).
You are greatly encouraged to use this software instead of writing your own CUPS backends: Tea4CUPS will let you plug your own scripts, filters, tools, or commands wherever you want, while giving them access to all the print job’s characteristics in a consistent way.
Tea4CUPS makes all information about the current print job, in particular the job’s datas and attributes, available to your own commands through environment variables.
The possibilities are endless:
- Your own commands can optionally decide to discard the current print job instead of printing it.
- Send the same job to several printers at the same time, which is not possible with CUPS.
- Automate the PDF archiving of all print jobs.
- Forbid duplicate print jobs (a simple example is shown in the sample configuration file).
- Easily create a print accounting solution.
There are three ways to install cups-tea4cups 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-tea4cups 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-tea4cups using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cups-tea4cups
Install cups-tea4cups Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cups-tea4cups using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cups-tea4cups
Install cups-tea4cups 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cups-tea4cups using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cups-tea4cups
How To Uninstall cups-tea4cups on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cups-tea4cups package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cups-tea4cups
Uninstall cups-tea4cups And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cups-tea4cups and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cups-tea4cups
Remove cups-tea4cups Configurations and Data
To remove cups-tea4cups configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cups-tea4cups
Remove cups-tea4cups configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cups-tea4cups configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cups-tea4cups
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-tea4cups using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.