How To Install foo2lava on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2lava in Fedora 36. foo2lava is Linux printer driver for Zenographics LAVAFLOW protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2lava on Fedora 36.

What is foo2lava

foo2lava is an open source printer driver for printers that use the Zenographics LAVAFLOW wire protocol for their print data, such as the Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W or the Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL or the Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF or the Konica Minolta magicolor 2490 MFor the Konica Minolta magicolor 4690 MF. 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, LAVAFLOW printers are raster printers which happen to use a very efficient wire protocol which was developed by Zenographics and licensed by most major printer manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. LAVAFLOW is just one of many wire protocols that are in use today, such as Postscript, PCL, Epson, ZjStream, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install foo2lava on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foo2lava.

Install foo2lava on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install foo2lava using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install foo2lava

Install foo2lava on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install foo2lava using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foo2lava

How To Uninstall foo2lava on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the foo2lava package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove foo2lava

foo2lava Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/command2foo2lava-pjl
/usr/bin/foo2lava
/usr/bin/foo2lava-wrapper
/usr/bin/lavadecode
/usr/bin/opldecode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/80c342a66b13c9d6c771ae699dec8aaa13de8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/32db48f2fad3e5ac785db09274d883bfb01518
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/e8f8acc94f586b933f5b97c4e455afc1e44cf8
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/d81480ef8066c06fca235ce776f9c2813f3ecb
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_1600W.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_1680MF.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_1690MF.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_2480_MF.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_2490_MF.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_2530_DL.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_4690MF.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/Xerox-Phaser_6121MFP.ppd.gz
/usr/share/doc/foo2lava
/usr/share/doc/foo2lava/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/foo2lava/README
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/foo2lava.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-ColorMode.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-Duplex.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-ICM.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-InputSlot.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-MediaType.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-PageSize.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-PrinterType.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2lava-Resolution.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_1600W.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_1680MF.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_1690MF.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_2480_MF.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_2490_MF.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_2530_DL.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/KONICA_MINOLTA-magicolor_4690MF.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Xerox-Phaser_6121MFP.xml
/usr/share/licenses/foo2lava
/usr/share/licenses/foo2lava/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/foo2lava-wrapper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foo2lava.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lavadecode.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opldecode.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2lava on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).