Information about the package, foomatic, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The foomatic package is designed for, Database of printers and printer drivers.
Package Name:
foomatic
Summary:
Database of printers and printer drivers
Description:
Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. It contains utilities to generate driver description files and printer queues for CUPS, LPD, LPRng, and PDQ using the database. 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://www.linuxprinting.org/ is based on this database.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.0.4
Release:
5.el6_7
Size:
251 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the foomatic package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install foomatic
This command will install foomatic on the server.
yum remove foomatic
This command will un-install foomatic on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove foomatic, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove foomatic
This command will un-install foomatic on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove foomatic when using the -y flag.
yum update foomatic
This command will update foomatic to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove foomatic, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update foomatic
This command will update foomatic to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove foomatic when using the -y flag.
yum info foomatic
This command will show you core information about the foomatic package.
yum deplist foomatic
This command will show you the dependencies for foomatic. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update foomatic
This command will check if there is an update waiting on foomatic. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.