driverless command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix driverless command not found error message

Introduction

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

driverless: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: driverless: command not found

Solutions to driverless: command not found

How To Fix driverless: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu driverless is provided by cups-filters-core-drivers package.

cups-filters-core-drivers is:

This package provides additional CUPS filters which are not provided by the CUPS project itself. This includes filters for a PDF based printing workflow.

This package contains only the filters needed for driverless printing of PDF input files on IPP printers with known, common languages (PDF, PostScript, PWG Raster, Apple Raster, PCL).

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

sudo apt-get -y install cups-filters-core-drivers

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

You can also use apt command to install cups-filters-core-drivers.

sudo apt -y install cups-filters-core-drivers

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

sudo aptitude install cups-filters-core-drivers

Summary

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