remove cupsd completly?

Question

i tried using apt-get remove cupsd but i found traces of it in different locations and it is still running and listening. how can i rip it completely from my machine? is it possible to remove the dpkg for cups?

i am using mint 17

Linux user-virtual-machine 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:08:14 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

virtual-machine # netstat -an | more
    unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     15350    /var/run/cups/cups.sock

virtual-machine # netstat -tulpn
    tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2711/cupsd  
    tcp6       0      0 ::1:631                 :::*                    LISTEN      2711/cupsd 

# find / -name cups
/run/cups
/etc/ufw/applications.d/cups
/etc/init.d/cups
/etc/default/cups
/etc/cups
/usr/lib/cups
/usr/share/doc/cups
/usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/cups
/usr/share/doc-base/cups
/usr/share/cups
/var/spool/cups
/var/lib/doc-base/omf/cups
/var/lib/doc-base/documents/cups
/var/log/cups
/var/cache/cups

# apt-cache pkgnames cups
cups-driver-gutenprint
cups-core-drivers
cups-pdf
cups-bsd
cups
cups-common
cups-pk-helper
cups-backend-bjnp
cups-filters
cups-server-common
cups-dbg
cups-tea4cups
cups-ppdc
cups-browsed
cups-filters-core-drivers
cups-daemon
cups-client

Solution 1

To list all of your installed packages which match 'cups', run

dpkg -l | grep cups

Then just remove them with apt-get remove.

Even after that, there could be some cups processes running. A simple reboot will eliminate them (an alternative would be to manually kill them).

Solution 2

3 of the cups packeges are used for non-printing things (like pdf conversion) the other 17 can be removed.

> cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 15.04 \n \l

> dpkg -l | grep -i cup | grep ii | wc -l
20

> apt-get purge -y cups cups-common && apt-get autoremove -y
...

> dpkg -l | grep -i cup | grep ii | wc -l
3

Comments

[wurtel]

Some progams link with the libcups2 library, so you probably can't remove all traces of cups from your system. Removing the cups package will remove the clients and the daemon though.

[jes516]

when you say cups package do you mean these: # dpkg -l | grep cups ii cups-bsd, ii cups-client, ii cups-common, ii cups-core-drivers, ii cups-daemon, ii cups-filters, ii cups-filters-core-drivers, ii cups-pk-helper, ii cups-ppdc, ii cups-server-common

[thiagowfx]

yes, these were what I meant. cups-daemon looks like the most promising one to remove

[jes516]

i should of stopped after the cups-daemon. removing the daemon package killed the port and it stopped listening aswell. thank you