How To Install magicfilter on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install magicfilter on Debian 10.
What is magicfilter
magicfilter is:
Magicfilter is a customizable, extensible automatic printer filter.
It translates the files that you send to a printer to a “language” that your printer can “understand”. To accomplish this goal, it determines the type of the file that is to be printed and uses its “knowledge” to convert the file to something that is printable.
This is done by use of magicfilter’s own magic database (a la file(1)) to decide how to print out a given print job.
There are three methods to install magicfilter on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install magicfilter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install magicfilter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install magicfilter
Install magicfilter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install magicfilter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install magicfilter
Install magicfilter 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 magicfilter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install magicfilter
How To Uninstall magicfilter on Debian 10
To uninstall only the magicfilter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove magicfilter
Uninstall magicfilter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall magicfilter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove magicfilter
Remove magicfilter Configurations and Data
To remove magicfilter configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge magicfilter
Remove magicfilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove magicfilter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magicfilter
Dependencies
magicfilter have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install magicfilter package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.