cups-browsed command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cups-browsed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cups-browsed: command not found

Solutions to cups-browsed: command not found

How To Fix cups-browsed: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cups-browsed is provided by cups-browsed package.

cups-browsed is:

This package provides cups-browsed, a daemon which browses the Bonjour broadcasts of shared remote CUPS printers and makes the printers available locally, replacing the CUPS broadcasting/browsing which was dropped in CUPS 1.6.x. This way the old behavior of having the remote printers available automatically is now re-implemented with Bonjour.

cups-browsed is also useful with a CUPS >= 1.6 client to allow the latter to browse the printer list of CUPS < 1.6 servers (by using the old ‘cups’ protocol in BrowseRemoteProtocols).

cups-browsed is also useful with a CUPS >= 1.6 server to allow CUPS < 1.6 clients to browse its printer list (by using the old ‘cups’ protocol in BrowseLocalProtocols).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cups-browsed

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cups-browsed.

sudo apt -y install cups-browsed

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cups-browsed

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cups-browsed command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.