foomatic-db-compressed-ppds software package provides OpenPrinting printer support - Compressed PPDs derived from the database, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install foomatic-db-compressed-ppds
foomatic-db-compressed-ppds is installed in your system.
Make ensure the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep foomatic-db-compressed-ppds *
You will get with foomatic-db-compressed-ppds package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | foomatic-db-compressed-ppds |
| Version | 20160212-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | OpenPrinting printer support - Compressed PPDs derived from the database |
| Sub Section | Text |