How To Install samba-krb5-printing on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing on Rocky Linux 8. samba-krb5-printing is Samba CUPS backend for printing with Kerberos

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install samba-krb5-printing

Install samba-krb5-printing on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install samba-krb5-printing

How To Uninstall samba-krb5-printing on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove samba-krb5-printing

samba-krb5-printing Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/ebc50642384dae11e5d7a5ee257079b1898c8e
/usr/libexec/samba/smbspool_krb5_wrapper
/usr/share/man/man8/smbspool_krb5_wrapper.8.gz

References

samba-krb5-printing website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.