How To Install foomatic on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic on CentOS 8.
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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foomatic.
Install foomatic on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 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 CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the foomatic package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove foomatic
foomatic Package Contents on CentOS 8
/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/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/b99e8c3f8ec02cb286d8dfef92d15bd6fe154e
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/23feab7c2e4ec83adf6ce92ccb33bb5bddd5f5
/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/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.