How To Install foomatic on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic on Fedora 34.
What is foomatic
Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. This package contains utilities to generate driver description files and printer queues for CUPS, LPD, LPRng, and PDQ using the database (packaged separately). There is also the possibility to read the PJL options out of PJL-capable laser printers and take them into account at the driver description file generation. There are spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues (foomatic-configure) and to print files/manipulate jobs (foomatic printjob). The site http
We can use yum or dnf to install foomatic on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foomatic.
Install foomatic on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install foomatic using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install foomatic
Install foomatic on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install foomatic using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install foomatic
How To Uninstall foomatic on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the foomatic package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove foomatic
foomatic Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/foomatic
/etc/foomatic/defaultspooler
/usr/bin/foomatic-combo-xml
/usr/bin/foomatic-compiledb
/usr/bin/foomatic-configure
/usr/bin/foomatic-datafile
/usr/bin/foomatic-perl-data
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppd-options
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppd-to-xml
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile
/usr/bin/foomatic-printjob
/usr/bin/foomatic-searchprinter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/f9a5869ffa057d2f2dc9e76333d004fec5cacf
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/cf02b0c7a7f216c2e28a047af6d475471607bd
/usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic
/usr/sbin/foomatic-addpjloptions
/usr/sbin/foomatic-cleanupdrivers
/usr/sbin/foomatic-extract-text
/usr/sbin/foomatic-fix-xml
/usr/sbin/foomatic-getpjloptions
/usr/sbin/foomatic-kitload
/usr/sbin/foomatic-nonumericalids
/usr/sbin/foomatic-preferred-driver
/usr/sbin/foomatic-printermap-to-gutenprint-xml
/usr/sbin/foomatic-replaceoldprinterids
/usr/share/doc/foomatic
/usr/share/doc/foomatic/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-cleanupdrivers.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-combo-xml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-compiledb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-configure.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-datafile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-extract-text.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-fix-xml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-nonumericalids.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-perl-data.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-ppd-options.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-ppd-to-xml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-ppdfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-printermap-to-gutenprint-xml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-printjob.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-replaceoldprinterids.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-searchprinter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/foomatic-addpjloptions.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/foomatic-getpjloptions.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/foomatic-kitload.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/foomatic-preferred-driver.8.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Foomatic
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Foomatic/DB.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Foomatic/DB.pm.pagesize-fract
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Foomatic/Defaults.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Foomatic/PPD.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Foomatic/UIElem.pm
/var/cache/foomatic
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
