How To Install standardskriver on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install standardskriver
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is standardskriver
standardskriver is:
The Standard Skriver Tool (‘standardskriver’ is Norwegian, i.e. Bokmål, for “default printer”) allows the site admin to dynamically update a user’s default printer setting at logon time.
At desktop session startup, a new default printer gets automatically configured based on the location of the client host in use and/or also based on POSIX group memberships of the current user.
Standard Skriver uses an easy-to-setup INI configuration file. The configuration syntax also supports for configuring of multiple sites, so one configuration file can be deployed to multiple sites.
There are three methods to install standardskriver
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install standardskriver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install standardskriver
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install standardskriver
Install standardskriver Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install standardskriver
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install standardskriver
Install standardskriver 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install standardskriver
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install standardskriver
How To Uninstall standardskriver on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the standardskriver
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove standardskriver
Uninstall standardskriver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall standardskriver
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove standardskriver
Remove standardskriver Configurations and Data
To remove standardskriver
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge standardskriver
Remove standardskriver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove standardskriver
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge standardskriver
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install standardskriver
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.