The libcupsfilters library contains filter functions for the data format conversion tasks needed in Printer Applications. It also contains several API functions for developing printer drivers/Printer Applications.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcupsfilters/releases/download/2.2.1/libcupsfilters-2.2.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3283b39236c533452d8328b306ce9b5b
Download size: 4.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Cups-2.4.19, GLib-2.88.3, ghostscript-10.07.1, mupdf-1.26.12, Little CMS-2.19.1, pdfio-1.6.4, and Poppler-26.08.0
Dejavu fonts (the build fails if they are not installed, although they are only required for the tests), libexif-0.6.26, libjpeg-turbo-3.2.0, libpng-1.6.58, and tiff-4.7.2
Install libcupsfilters by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/libcupsfilters-2.2.1 &&
make
This package does not come with a working test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.