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FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)					      General Commands Manual					     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 overwritten. So deleting the destination directory (rm -rf dir) and  call-
       ing 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)

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FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8)					      System Manager's Manual					       FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8)

NAME

       foomatic-kitload - installs a data kit into the foomatic database.

SYNOPSIS

       foomatic-kitload [ -k kit-dir] [ -d dest-dir]...

DESCRIPTION

       foomatic-kitload  installs  a  foomatic	data kit into the local data library.  It takes a -k dirname option, where dirname is the toplevel
       directory of a foomatic driver "kit".  A "kit" is a selection of XML source files arranged exactly as in the source/section of  the  master
       database (ie, opt/driver/printer/ subdirs).

       GIMP-Print's foomatic-generator produces exactly such a kit.

       Foomatic-kitload  is moderately paranoid about kits: the kit must contain at least one of printer, driver or opt; the kit must contain only
       files ending in .xml, the kit cannot be the local library itself, etc.  But it does not inspect the contents of the kit files in any way.

   Options
       -k dirname
		 dirname is the toplevel directory of a foomatic driver "kit".

       -d destdir
		 destdir is a prefix to prepend to the install path.  This will not normally be required, but is useful if installing into a  tem-
		 porary `staging area' prior to installing in the final destination.

EXIT STATUS

       foomatic-kitload returns 0 on success, 255 or something else when an error occurs.

AUTHOR

       Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.

BUGS

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

Foomatic Project						    2001-05-07						       FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8)
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