How To Install foomatic-filters.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic-filters.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. foomatic-filters.x86_64 is CUPS print filters for the foomatic package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic-filters.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `foomatic-filters.x86_64`

CUPS print filters for the foomatic package.

We can use yum to install foomatic-filters.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foomatic-filters.x86_64.

Install foomatic-filters.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install foomatic-filters.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foomatic-filters.x86_64

How To Uninstall foomatic-filters.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the foomatic-filters.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove foomatic-filters.x86_64

foomatic-filters.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/foomatic
/etc/foomatic/filter.conf
/usr/bin/foomatic-rip
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
/usr/share/doc/foomatic-filters-4.0.9
/usr/share/doc/foomatic-filters-4.0.9/foomatic-filters-4.0.17
/usr/share/doc/foomatic-filters-4.0.9/foomatic-filters-4.0.17/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.gz

References

foomatic-filters.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic-filters.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.