How to Install and Uninstall cups-filters Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "cups-filters" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install cups-filters on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall cups-filters on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cups-filters
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cups-filters package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: cups-filters
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.28.5-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1836
Provides: foomatic-filters, foomatic-filters-beh, ghostscript-cups
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libcupsfilters1 (>= 1.22.2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfontembed1 (>= 1.0.31), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libqpdf28 (>> 10.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), cups-filters-core-drivers (>= 1.28.5-0ubuntu1), bc, ghostscript, poppler-utils
Recommends: colord, liblouisutdml-bin | liblouis-bin
Suggests: foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db, antiword, docx2txt, imagemagick
Conflicts: foomatic-filters, foomatic-filters-beh, ghostscript-cups
Replaces: foomatic-filters, foomatic-filters-beh, ghostscript-cups
Filename: pool/main/c/cups-filters/cups-filters_1.28.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 465016
MD5sum: 596ddb414a4beab338cc006538b52949
SHA1: b525e9a9f8d790f1fef1b1967fa9f55f1f44e791
SHA256: 1af710fa9a95b8827138587ac04e1db5a049160c9b7d28f2072580ea2491267f
SHA512: b620a747888d7611568ed4268a9e2d1889b33f92de9050663fbfccbe73f621eae79494ecb2656564221b5ae3fd6accc2b46386d0af576d581376e83be6027486
Homepage: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openprinting/
Description-en: OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - Main Package
This package provides additional CUPS filters which are not provided
by the CUPS project itself. This includes filters for a PDF based
printing workflow.
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This package contains the filters for printing with drivers/PPDs and
for converting non-PDF input files to PDF.
Description-md5: 3904eb1f4e7435cb00f37604454e097a
Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-desktop-raspi, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop