See administration guide of your UNIX OS for details.

Installing driver over the network

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From the Dell website, download and unpack the UNIX Printer Driver

8 Run “installprinter” from the command line. This will bring up the Add

 

package to your computer.

Printer Wizard window. Setup the printer in this window referring to

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the following procedures.

Acquire root privileges.

 

 

su -

On some UNIX OS, for example on Solaris 10, just added printers may not be

 

 

3

Copy the appropriate driver archive to the target UNIX computer.

enabled and/or may not accept jobs. In this case run the following two

commands on the root terminal:

accept <printer_name>“enable <printer_name>

4 Unpack the UNIX printer driver package.

Uninstalling the printer driver package

For example, on IBM AIX, use the following commands.

gzip -d < enter the package name tar xf -

 

 

5Go to the unpacked directory.

6Run the install script. “./install –i

install is the installer script file which is used to install or uninstall the UNIX Printer Driver package.

Use “chmod 755 install” command to give the permission to the installer script.

7Execute the “. /install –c command to verify installation results.

The utility should be used to delete the printer installed in the system.

aRun “uninstallprinter” command from the terminal.

It will open the Uninstall Printer Wizard.

The installed printers are listed in the drop-down list.

bSelect the printer to be deleted.

cClick Delete to delete the printer from the system.

dExecute the “. /install –d command to uninstall the whole package.

eTo verify removal results, execute the “. /install –c command.

To re-install it, use the command “. /install” to reinstall the binaries.

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