How To Install system-config-printer-gnome on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install system-config-printer-gnome
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is system-config-printer-gnome
system-config-printer-gnome is:
This is a transitional package and can safely be removed once no other packages depend on it.
Package: system-config-printer-gnome Architecture: all Version: 1.5.12-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/python Source: system-config-printer Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 21 Depends: system-config-printer (>= 1.5.7+20160812-0ubuntu3~) Filename: pool/universe/s/system-config-printer/system-config-printer-gnome_1.5.12-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 1984 MD5sum: 81df8327ceda881d096b2400a4c51e86 SHA1: 881e55cb669e3b4fa5fa5e50c4b39b416d2fbbc7 SHA256: 084ef9fc8711c2a07be82e02b545993a2b2061028b70e7370d03811f88418e3f Homepage: https://github.com/zdohnal/system-config-printer Description-en: graphical interface to configure printers (transitional package) This is a transitional package and can safely be removed once no other packages depend on it.
There are three methods to install system-config-printer-gnome
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 system-config-printer-gnome Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install system-config-printer-gnome
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install system-config-printer-gnome
Install system-config-printer-gnome Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install system-config-printer-gnome
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install system-config-printer-gnome
Install system-config-printer-gnome 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 system-config-printer-gnome
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install system-config-printer-gnome
How To Uninstall system-config-printer-gnome on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the system-config-printer-gnome
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove system-config-printer-gnome
Uninstall system-config-printer-gnome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall system-config-printer-gnome
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove system-config-printer-gnome
Remove system-config-printer-gnome Configurations and Data
To remove system-config-printer-gnome
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge system-config-printer-gnome
Remove system-config-printer-gnome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove system-config-printer-gnome
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge system-config-printer-gnome
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install system-config-printer-gnome
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.