How To Install standardskriver on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install standardskriver on Ubuntu.
What is standardskriver
standardskriver is:
The Standard Skriver Tool (‘standardskriver’ is Norwegian, i.e. Bokmål, for “default printer”) allows the site admin to dynamically update a user’s default printer setting at logon time.
At desktop session startup, a new default printer gets automatically configured based on the location of the client host in use and/or also based on POSIX group memberships of the current user.
Standard Skriver uses an easy-to-setup INI configuration file. The configuration syntax also supports for configuring of multiple sites, so one configuration file can be deployed to multiple sites.
There are three methods to install standardskriver on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install standardskriver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install standardskriver using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install standardskriver
Install standardskriver Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install standardskriver using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install standardskriver
Install standardskriver Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install standardskriver using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install standardskriver
How To Uninstall standardskriver on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the standardskriver package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove standardskriver
Uninstall standardskriver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall standardskriver and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove standardskriver
Remove standardskriver Configurations and Data
To remove standardskriver configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge standardskriver
Remove standardskriver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove standardskriver configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge standardskriver
Dependencies
standardskriver have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install standardskriver package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.