How To Install openprinting-ppds on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openprinting-ppds on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openprinting-ppds
openprinting-ppds is:
This package includes a collection of free PostScript Printer Description files for PostScript (and clone) printers from various manufacturers, as distributed by OpenPrinting.
If you have non-PostScript printers, the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds (or foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine), hplip and the printer-driver-* packages are the ones you need; this package won’t be of much help to you.
Some manufacturers distribute PPD files for their printers under non-free licenses; those are not included in this package, but may be available from the manufacturer’s website, included on a CD or other media with the printer, or downloadable from the OpenPrinting web site (even automatically if the printer setup tool supports it). Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install openprinting-ppds on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install openprinting-ppds Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openprinting-ppds using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openprinting-ppds
Install openprinting-ppds Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openprinting-ppds using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openprinting-ppds
Install openprinting-ppds 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 openprinting-ppds using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openprinting-ppds
How To Uninstall openprinting-ppds on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openprinting-ppds package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openprinting-ppds
Uninstall openprinting-ppds And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openprinting-ppds and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openprinting-ppds
Remove openprinting-ppds Configurations and Data
To remove openprinting-ppds configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openprinting-ppds
Remove openprinting-ppds configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openprinting-ppds configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openprinting-ppds
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openprinting-ppds package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
