How to Install and Uninstall foomatic-db-engine Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "foomatic-db-engine" package

This tutorial shows how to install foomatic-db-engine on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall foomatic-db-engine on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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-engine package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: foomatic-db-engine
Version: 4.0.13-5
Installed-Size: 798
Maintainer: Debian Printing Group
Architecture: amd64
Depends: cups-filters (>= 1.0.42) | foomatic-filters, wget | curl, perl:any, libc6 (>= 2.4), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: cups, cups-client, foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db
Suggests: foomatic-db-gutenprint, netcat
Description: OpenPrinting printer support - programs
Description-md5: 06dc0af0df2ebffe0b2cf09bedf80c7f
Homepage: https://www.openprinting.org/
Tag: hardware::printer, role::program, use::driver, use::printing
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/foomatic-db-engine/foomatic-db-engine_4.0.13-5_amd64.deb
Size: 289716
MD5sum: c221ae7f559ffbc523cbf9df614739c0
SHA256: 57a7fd431aef60ab52e06c76f78320521411cc28364e1a74d6939d94919e91ff