Disabling cups?

[S0m3th1ngw13rd]

Is there a way I can disable cups? I don't think I need it(not 1 printer in the house). I might be wrong ,not sure. Can someone please advise?

Thanks ahead of time.

[tdayal]

If you go to Preferences > Sessions, you can uncheck services you don't want at startup, so you probably want to uncheck the printing services.

Next time you reboot, no more printing services.

[yeats]

I would think that unless there's a specific reason you don't need CUPS, you would want to leave it alone. With no active printers, it can't be using much in the way of resources. . .

But, since you're asking . . . have you considered a complete removal? Reinstalling later is no sweat, especially if you don't have it configured already.

UPDATE: tdayal posted at the same time - that suggestion might be better

[bwang]

Why would you want to disable it? Is CUPS causing you any trouble?

I think that

sudo apt-get remove cups-pdf cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-common cupsys-driver-gutenprint libcupsys2

will remove CUPS, however, I don't recommend removing it.

[S0m3th1ngw13rd]

Don't have a printer at all and don't plan on buying one so don't need cups. Unless it is used for something else also?

[cariboo]

One other way to accomplish what you want is to stop cups from starting at boot up, open a Applications-->Accessories-Terminal and type:

sudo update-rc.d -f cups remove

That way if you ever need to connect a printer, you don't have to reinstall cups, you can just start the service as needed.

Jim

[S0m3th1ngw13rd]

One other way to accomplish what you want is to stop cups from starting at boot up, open a Applications-->Accessories-Terminal and type:

sudo update-rc.d -f cups remove

That way if you ever need to connect a printer, you don't have to reinstall cups, you can just start the service as needed.

Jim

Thanks Jim, this disabled it from starting at boot.