How To Install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 12.
What is printer-driver-cups-pdf
printer-driver-cups-pdf is:
CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS.
Documents are written to a configurable directory (by default to ~/PDF) or can be further manipulated by a post-processing command.
Note that AppArmor prevents outputting PDF documents to non-default directories so </etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd> must also be edited, whenever the above default get changed in </etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf>.
In cases where the system mounts home directories from paths other than </home/>, edit </etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home> instead.
Desktop users might find it simpler to use the Print To File feature provided by GTK+ and QT or the LibreOffice’s Export to PDF feature.
There are three methods to install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install printer-driver-cups-pdf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-cups-pdf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install printer-driver-cups-pdf
Install printer-driver-cups-pdf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-cups-pdf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install printer-driver-cups-pdf
Install printer-driver-cups-pdf 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 printer-driver-cups-pdf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install printer-driver-cups-pdf
How To Uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian 12
To uninstall only the printer-driver-cups-pdf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove printer-driver-cups-pdf
Uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove printer-driver-cups-pdf
Remove printer-driver-cups-pdf Configurations and Data
To remove printer-driver-cups-pdf configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge printer-driver-cups-pdf
Remove printer-driver-cups-pdf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove printer-driver-cups-pdf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge printer-driver-cups-pdf
Dependencies
printer-driver-cups-pdf have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-cups-pdf package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
