How To Install foo2slx on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2slx on Fedora 34.
What is foo2slx
foo2slx is an open source printer driver for printers that use the Software Imaging K.K. SLX wire protocol for their print data, such as the Lexmark C500n. These printers are often erroneously referred to as winprinters or GDI printers. However, Microsoft GDI only mandates the API between an application and the printer driver, not the protocol on the wire between the printer driver and the printer. In fact, SLX printers are raster printers which happen to use a very efficient wire protocol which was developed by Zenographics and cloned by Software Imaging K.K. and licensed by most major printer manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. SLX is just one of many wire protocols that are in use today, such as Postscript, PCL, Epson, ZjStream, etc. Users of this package are requested to visit the author’s web page at http
We can use yum or dnf to install foo2slx on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foo2slx.
Install foo2slx 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 foo2slx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install foo2slx
Install foo2slx 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 foo2slx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install foo2slx
How To Uninstall foo2slx on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the foo2slx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove foo2slx
foo2slx Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/foo2slx
/usr/bin/foo2slx-wrapper
/usr/bin/gipddecode
/usr/bin/slxdecode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/d7819da67147548d8f305d951bfc05c015a834
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/e45a344e675914b1f41839efef671a46aab269
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/dfa1159c55d6cf2e9fdf1393d53488460975a7
/usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark-C500.ppd.gz
/usr/share/doc/foo2slx
/usr/share/doc/foo2slx/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/foo2slx/README
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/foo2slx.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2slx-ColorMode.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2slx-ICM.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2slx-InputSlot.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2slx-MediaType.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2slx-PageSize.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2slx-Resolution.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Lexmark-C500.xml
/usr/share/licenses/foo2slx
/usr/share/licenses/foo2slx/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/foo2slx-wrapper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foo2slx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gipddecode.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/slxdecode.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2slx on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.