How To Install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7. samba-krb5-printing is Samba CUPS backend for printing with Kerberos

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7.

What is samba-krb5-printing

If you need Kerberos for print jobs to a printer connection to cups via the SMB backend, then you need to install that package. It will allow cups to access the Kerberos credentials cache of the user issuing the print job.

We can use yum or dnf to install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba-krb5-printing.

Install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install samba-krb5-printing using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samba-krb5-printing

Install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install samba-krb5-printing using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install samba-krb5-printing

How To Uninstall samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the samba-krb5-printing package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove samba-krb5-printing

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.