Where to find foomatic-filters-ppds?

[NoOp]

On 04/28/2008 01:47 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> With the default ppd files coming with ubuntu, I get a very bad
> quality on my HP LJ-4M.
> 
> OTOH, I get very good quality on my suse box with the
> LaserJet_4M-Postscript.ppd.  According to rpmsearch, this ppd
> is available for ubuntu in the
> foomatic-filters-ppds_20040506-1ubuntu1_all.deb package.  But
> 
>   apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds
> 
> says it can't find this package.
> 
> I have enabled universe, multiverse and restricted.
> 
> Any hints?
> 


http://packages.ubuntu.com/
 search for 'foomatic-filter' (Any_

Results:
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=foomatic-filters&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all>

You'll see that foomatic-filters-ppds was only included for dapper and edgy.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/foomatic-filters-ppds
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/all/foomatic-filters-ppds/filelist
HP/HP-LaserJet_4M-Postscript.ppd.gz

So, the easy way is to:
Download foomatic-filters-ppds
Download for all available architectures Architecture 	Package Size
Installed Size 	Files
all 	11,273.1 kB	17536 kB 	[list of files]

click on 'all' and
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/all/foomatic-filters-ppds/download
select a mirror and download.

However, if you already have the file on your Suse box, why not just
copy it over to your Ubuntu system - /usr/share/ppd/openprinting/HP?