Installing CUPS on the UNIX workstation

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 the links/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 workstation 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). Debian format:

dpkg -i cups-1.1-linux-M.m.n-intel.deb (and press Enter).

Note: RedHat Linux, versions 7.3 and newer, include CUPS support, so software downloading is unnecessary. Also, CUPS is the default printing system used by Mandrake Linux.

Installing the Xerox PPD on the workstation

The Xerox PPD for CUPS should be available on one of the CD-ROMs that came with your device and available for downloading from the Internet at www.xerox.com.

From the CD-ROM or from the downloaded Internet file, with root privileges copy the PPD into your cups ppd folder on your workstation. If you are unsure of the folder's location, use the Find command to locate the ppd's. An example of the location of the ppd.gz files in RedHat 8.1 is /usr/share/cups/model.

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7345, 7335 specifications

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