How To Install cups-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. cups-filesystem.noarch is CUPS printing system - directory layout

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is cups-filesystem.noarch

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. This package provides some directories which are required by other packages that add CUPS drivers (i.e. filters, backends etc.).

We can use yum to install cups-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-filesystem.noarch.

Install cups-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cups-filesystem.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-filesystem.noarch

How To Uninstall cups-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cups-filesystem.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cups-filesystem.noarch

cups-filesystem.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/cups
/usr/lib/cups/backend
/usr/lib/cups/driver
/usr/lib/cups/filter
/usr/share/cups
/usr/share/cups/banners/mls
/usr/share/cups/banners/selinux
/usr/share/cups/banners/te
/usr/share/cups/data
/usr/share/cups/drv
/usr/share/cups/mime
/usr/share/cups/model
/usr/share/cups/ppdc
/usr/share/ppd

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filesystem.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.