1FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)       General Commands Manual      FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)
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NAME

6       foomatic-compiledb - Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database
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SYNOPSIS

9       foomatic-compiledb [ -t type ] [ -f ] [ -j n ] [  driver ...  ]
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DESCRIPTION

13       foomatic-compiledb  generates all PPD files or Foomatic combo XML files
14       for all possible printer/driver combos, or only for a selected range of
15       drivers.   It  generally  should not be necessary except for people who
16       want to generate a set of Foomatic data  files  for  distribution.  For
17       configuring   single   printers   foomatic-ppdfile(1)   and  especially
18       foomatic-configure(1) will automagically compute just what they need.
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22       -t type   Output file type, either ppd or xml.
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SEE ALSO

37       foomatic-ppdfile(1),foomatic-configure(1)
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EXIT STATUS

41       foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.
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AUTHORS

45       Manfred  Wassmann  <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de>  and  Till  Kamppeter
46       <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> for the foomatic project using  output  from
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BUGS

51       Existing  files are always conserved instead of older files being over‐
52       written. So deleting the destination directory (rm -rf dir) and calling
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62Foomatic Project                  2001-05-07             FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)