How To Install cups-tea4cups on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-tea4cups on Ubuntu 22.04. cups-tea4cups is Swiss Armys knife of advanced CUPS administrators

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-tea4cups on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cups-tea4cups

cups-tea4cups is:

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 methods to install cups-tea4cups on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04

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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.