cups/system-config-printer ppd file - removing?

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Sep 2 11:25:17 UTC 2005


On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:52:06PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

> Is it possible to remove ppd files after they have been imported with 
> system-config-printer - i.e. remove them from the list of printers that 
> one sees in system-config-printer? Or, in other words, where is the 
> information that system-config-printer is using to generate the list of 
> printers?

There isn't an easy way, no.  You can do this to remove all imported
PPD information:

rpm -e --nodeps foomatic
rm -rf /usr/share/foomatic/db
yum install foomatic

and I think it ought to do what you want.

Tim.
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