How To Install foo2oak on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2oak on Fedora 36.
What is foo2oak
foo2oak is a printer driver for printers that use the Oak Technology (now Zoran) OAKT protocol for their print data, such as the HP Color LaserJet 1500, Kyocera KM-1635 and the Kyocera KM-2035. 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, OAKT printers are raster printers which happen to use a fairly efficient wire protocol which was developed by Oak Technology and licensed by some printer manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. OAKT 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 foo2oak on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install foo2oak.
Install foo2oak 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 foo2oak using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install foo2oak
Install foo2oak 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 foo2oak using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install foo2oak
How To Uninstall foo2oak on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the foo2oak package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove foo2oak
foo2oak Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/foo2oak
/usr/bin/foo2oak-wrapper
/usr/bin/oakdecode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/043cd681d460bbc823a535641b7e4d6cca7dba
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/a78b5c60570a573c82df1befb8a7cedf8348ec
/usr/share/cups/model/Generic-OAKT_Printer.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/HP-Color_LaserJet_1500.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/Kyocera-KM-1635.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/Kyocera-KM-2035.ppd.gz
/usr/share/doc/foo2oak
/usr/share/doc/foo2oak/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/foo2oak/README
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/foo2oak-z1.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/foo2oak.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-BitsPerPlane.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-ColorMode.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-ICM.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-InputSlot.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-MediaType.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-z1-Duplex.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-z1-InputSlot.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-z1-MediaType.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/foo2oak-z1-PageSize.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Generic-OAKT_Printer.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-Color_LaserJet_1500.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Kyocera-KM-1635.xml
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/Kyocera-KM-2035.xml
/usr/share/licenses/foo2oak
/usr/share/licenses/foo2oak/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/foo2oak-wrapper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/foo2oak.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/oakdecode.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foo2oak on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).