How To Install printer-driver-hpcups on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpcups on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: 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 printer-driver-hpcups 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 printer-driver-hpcups Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpcups using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install printer-driver-hpcups
Install printer-driver-hpcups Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install printer-driver-hpcups using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install printer-driver-hpcups
Install printer-driver-hpcups 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 printer-driver-hpcups using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install printer-driver-hpcups
How To Uninstall printer-driver-hpcups on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the printer-driver-hpcups package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove printer-driver-hpcups
Uninstall printer-driver-hpcups And Its Dependencies
To uninstall printer-driver-hpcups and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove printer-driver-hpcups
Remove printer-driver-hpcups Configurations and Data
To remove printer-driver-hpcups configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge printer-driver-hpcups
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:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge printer-driver-hpcups
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install printer-driver-hpcups package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
