How To Install foomatic-db-filesystem on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic-db-filesystem on CentOS 8.
What is foomatic-db-filesystem
Directory layout for the foomatic package.
We can use yum or dnf to install foomatic-db-filesystem on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foomatic-db-filesystem.
Install foomatic-db-filesystem 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-db-filesystem using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install foomatic-db-filesystem
Install foomatic-db-filesystem 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-db-filesystem using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install foomatic-db-filesystem
How To Uninstall foomatic-db-filesystem on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the foomatic-db-filesystem package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove foomatic-db-filesystem
foomatic-db-filesystem Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/foomatic
/usr/share/foomatic/db
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foomatic-db-filesystem on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.