Print Driver Installation
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System Administrator Guide
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Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
Overview
The Common UNIXS Printing System (CUPS) was created by Easy Software Products in 1998 as a
modern replacement for the Berkeley Line Printer Daemon (LPD) and AT&T Line Printer (LP) system
designed in the 1970's for printing text to line printers.
Currently available for downloading from a number of sources on the Internet, such as www.cups.org,
CUPS is offered in both source code and binary distributions.
Before You Start
Verify that IPP and Port 9100 are enabled at your printer. For more information see IPP Configuration
on page 54 and Configure Port 9100 (Raw Printing) on page 51.
Installing CUPS on the UNIX computer
The instructions for installing and building CUPS are contained in the CUPS Software Administrators
Manual, written and copyrighted by Easy Software Products and available for downloading at
www.cups.org/documentation.php. An Overview of the Common UNIX Printing System, Version 1.1 by
Easy Software is also available at this site.
A case history of the building and installation of CUPS source code on a FreeBSD 4.2 machine, is
described in the article entitled Using CUPS – the Common UNIX Printing System, by Ralph Krause,
available at www.cups.org, through thes/documentation/tutorials/BSD Today – Using CUPS selections.
Directory locations for the CUPS files, as described in this article, are the following:
• Programs were copied to /usr/local/bin and usr/local/sbin.
• Documentation was copied to /usr/local/share/docs/cups.
• A directory called /usr/local/share/cups was created for various CUPS data files.
• The configuration files were copied to /usr/local/etc/cups.
The binary distribution of CUPS is available in tar format with installation and removal scripts, as well
as in rpm and dpkg formats for RedHat and Debian versions of Linux. After logging into the computer
as root (su) and downloading the appropriate files to the root directory, the CUPS installation process
begins as follows:
Tar format:
After untarring the files, run the installation script with ./cups.install (and press Enter).
RPM format:
rpm -e lpr
rpm -i cups-1.1-linux-M.m.n-intel.rpm (and press Enter).
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