How To Install printer-driver-hpcups on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpcups
on Kali Linux.
What is printer-driver-hpcups
printer-driver-hpcups is:
This package contains a CUPS-Raster-based printer driver which adds support for most inkjet printers and some LaserJet printers manufactured by HP. It does not provide PPDs for the fax functionality of HP’s multi-function devices.
Users of the CUPS printing system are advised to also install the hplip package, and use the hp CUPS backend to send data to the printer. HPLIP supports USB and networked devices, and enables extended hpcups functionality such as border-less printing. Selecting any hpcups ppd in CUPS will use hpcups automatically.
No physical PPDs are shipped with this driver. PPDs are dynamically generated via a CUPS DDK .drv file.
This package can be installed to provide a minimal headless printer solution using CUPS.
There are three methods to install printer-driver-hpcups
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 printer-driver-hpcups Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpcups
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install printer-driver-hpcups Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpcups
using apt
by running the following command:
Install printer-driver-hpcups 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.
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpcups
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall printer-driver-hpcups on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the printer-driver-hpcups
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall printer-driver-hpcups And Its Dependencies
To uninstall printer-driver-hpcups
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove printer-driver-hpcups Configurations and Data
To remove printer-driver-hpcups
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove printer-driver-hpcups configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove printer-driver-hpcups
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
printer-driver-hpcups have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpcups
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.