How to Install and Uninstall cups-daemon Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 21,2024

You can also install and uninstall the cups-daemon on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "cups-daemon" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install cups-daemon on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "cups-daemon" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall cups-daemon on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cups-daemon package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: cups-daemon
Source: cups
Version: 2.4.2-3+deb12u5
Installed-Size: 864
Maintainer: Debian Printing Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: cups (<< 2.1.0-6~)
Depends: adduser, bc, libcups2 (= 2.4.2-3+deb12u5), lsb-base, procps, ssl-cert, libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.36), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpaper1, libsystemd0
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: avahi-daemon, colord, cups-browsed, ipp-usb
Suggests: cups, cups-bsd, cups-client (>= 2.4.2-3+deb12u5), cups-common (>= 2.4.2-3+deb12u5), cups-filters, cups-pdf, cups-ppdc, cups-server-common (>= 2.4.2-3+deb12u5), foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db, ghostscript, poppler-utils, smbclient, udev
Breaks: cups (<< 2.1.0-6~)
Description: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - daemon
Description-md5: 559bf8b849cd67e4ad13a2a638aea615
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/
Tag: hardware::printer, implemented-in::c, interface::web, network::server,
role::program, use::printing
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cups/cups-daemon_2.4.2-3+deb12u5_amd64.deb
Size: 352616
MD5sum: cc3eacfeedcb13425a5896a433b82199
SHA256: b02857e2ec962b51441641b5e957897eebfd868e57f897761a10043e8f59ea8f