How to Install and Uninstall libcups2 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 23,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libcups2 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libcups2" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libcups2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libcups2" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libcups2 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 libcups2 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libcups2
Source: cups
Version: 2.4.2-3+deb12u5
Installed-Size: 675
Maintainer: Debian Printing Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.36), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.5), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Suggests: cups-common
Description: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
Description-md5: cce9961cb86712146cb19e1b4636f79d
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cups/libcups2_2.4.2-3+deb12u5_amd64.deb
Size: 244560
MD5sum: be683c752ba46f927438afcca2ae1f35
SHA256: 264e0150e61c0095db357513f93c6c1432e779bf7edb95025ce2fa2d8573f177