How To Install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 is Samba CUPS backend for printing with Kerberos

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `samba-krb5-printing.x86_64`

If you need Kerberos for print jobs to a printer connection to cups via the SMB backend, then you need to install that package. It will allow cups to access the Kerberos credentials cache of the user issuing the print job.

We can use yum to install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64.

Install samba-krb5-printing.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 samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64

How To Uninstall samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove samba-krb5-printing.x86_64

samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/samba/smbspool_krb5_wrapper
/usr/share/man/man8/smbspool_krb5_wrapper.8.gz

References

samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-krb5-printing.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.