How to Install and Uninstall foomatic-db Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "foomatic-db" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install foomatic-db on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                foomatic-db
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "foomatic-db" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall foomatic-db on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the foomatic-db package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: foomatic-db
Version: 20181217-2
Installed-Size: 11924
Maintainer: Debian Printing Group
Architecture: all
Recommends: foomatic-db-engine, cups-filters (>= 1.0.42) | foomatic-filters, printer-driver-all, ghostscript, cups, cups-client
Suggests: hplip, hplip-cups, cups-filters, openprinting-ppds
Description: OpenPrinting printer support - database
Description-md5: d5f3469f229aa19246b75b0de1f76a10
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.openprinting.org/
Tag: hardware::printer, made-of::xml, role::app-data, role::program,
use::configuring, use::printing
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/foomatic-db/foomatic-db_20181217-2_all.deb
Size: 820940
MD5sum: 461bfa7a96057b29c00ee0864aa3b25b
SHA256: 807490f59abedc4dc231e641a150dfc9a949c6fa22d67533182a020b7fab7a36