foomatic-db

foomatic-db 0-unstable-2026-09-04 · pkgs/by-name/fo/foomatic-db/package.nix

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Risk

risk 2 low

+2 no meta.mainProgram, no versionCheckHook

Version

0-unstable-2026-09-04 no newer release known to repology

Channels

master 0-unstable-2026-09-04 · nixos-unstable 0-unstable-2026-09-04 · nixos-26.05 0-unstable-2026-02-09 master is ahead of nixos-26.05

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succeeded 2d ago

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Packaging

no meta.mainProgram no versionCheckHook

Packagewhat each field means

Description

OpenPrinting printer support database (free content)

Long description

The collected knowledge about printers,
drivers, and driver options in XML files,
used by `foomatic-db-engine` to generate PPD files.
PPD files generated from the XML files in this package
are contained in the package 'foomatic-db-ppds'.
Besides the XML files, this package contains
about 6,700 PPD files, for printers from
Brother, Canon, Epson, Gestetner, HP, InfoPrint,
Infotec, KONICA_MINOLTA, Kyocera, Lanier, Lexmark, NRG,
Oce, Oki, Ricoh, Samsung, Savin, Sharp, Toshiba and Utax.

Homepage

https://openprinting.github.io/projects/02-foomatic/

Download page

https://www.openprinting.org/download/foomatic/

Changelog

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/foomatic-db/blob/76dd1e31354c189b2edd9ae8201285d622c89395/ChangeLog

License

free

Platforms

not set

Source provenance

not set: built from source