How to Install and Uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "printer-driver-cups-pdf" package

This tutorial shows how to install printer-driver-cups-pdf on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "printer-driver-cups-pdf" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall printer-driver-cups-pdf on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 printer-driver-cups-pdf package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 146
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian CUPS Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Source: cups-pdf
Version: 2.6.1-21
Replaces: cups-pdf
Provides: cups-pdf
Depends: cups, cups-client, ghostscript, libpaper-utils, libc6 (>= 2.7)
Suggests: system-config-printer-gnome | system-config-printer-kde | system-config-printer
Filename: pool/universe/c/cups-pdf/printer-driver-cups-pdf_2.6.1-21_amd64.deb
Size: 34264
MD5sum: 423e23e68aecf1c225f76dea669f4da5
SHA1: 171241fa94a017307a3bbc5759fdab5a14d4164b
SHA256: bc3215e7ab09ece7f992d385685f663f49cfc008f3643a640c8663e89d2f14a2
Description-en: printer driver for PDF writing via CUPS
CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a
virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS.
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Documents are written to a configurable directory (by default to ~/PDF)
or can be further manipulated by a post-processing command.
Description-md5: 6e450478e4a46809a6beda605468f066
Homepage: http://www.cups-pdf.de
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu