foomatic-compiledb

FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)                                    FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)



NAME
       foomatic-compiledb - compile the foomatic driver database

SYNOPSIS
       foomatic-compiledb [-f ] [-j n ] [ driver ...  ]


DESCRIPTION
       foomatic-compiledb  generates  all  Foomatic  data  files  for  a given
       spooler (or Foomatic combo XML files) and either all  drivers/printers,
       or  a  selected range of drivers.  It generally should not be necessary
       except for people who want to generate a set of Foomatic data files for
       distribution.  For  configuring  single  printers foomatic-datafile and
       especially foomatic-configure will automagically compute just what they
       need.


   Options
       -t type   Output  file  type,  one  of ppd, cups, lprng, lpd, ppr, pdq,
                 direct, oldcups, xml.   Note:  "oldcups"  are  the  old-style
                 CUPS-O-Matic PPDs (for XPP 1.0 and older, KDE 2.x).


       -f        Force:  Write  into  the  destination  directory  even  if it
                 already exists.


       -j n      n = number of work processes to run


       driver ...
                 only generate data files for these driver(s)



EXIT STATUS
       foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.


AUTHORS
       Manfred  Wassmann  <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de>  and  Till  Kamppeter
       <till.kamppeter@gmx.net> for the foomatic project using output from the
       associated binary.


BUGS
       Existing files are always conserved instead of older files being  over-
       written. So deleting the destination directory (rm -rf dir) and calling
       foomatic-compiledb without the -f option is recommended.

       Please send bug reports to foomatic-devel@linuxprinting.org.



Foomatic Project                  2001-05-07             FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)