How To Install cups-filters-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cups-filters-libs.x86_64 is OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends - cupsfilters and fontembed

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cups-filters-libs.x86_64`

This package provides cupsfilters and fontembed libraries.

We can use yum to install cups-filters-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cups-filters-libs.x86_64.

Install cups-filters-libs.x86_64 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-filters-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cups-filters-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall cups-filters-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cups-filters-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cups-filters-libs.x86_64

cups-filters-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libcupsfilters.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcupsfilters.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libfontembed.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfontembed.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters-libs-1.0.35
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters-libs-1.0.35/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cups-filters-libs-1.0.35/README

References

cups-filters-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cups-filters-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.