Installing printers from a command line. 3

[butchrecon]

Does anyone have detailed instructions on how to install a printer for use with Linux RH7 from a command prompt? I need the ability to install printers woith out going into Xwindows. Is that possible? James Collins
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[butchrecon]

How do I create a symlink? James Collins
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[butchrecon]

Here is the message when doing a rpm -V printconf

[root] jbailey:/root> rpm -V printconf
Unsatisfied dependencies for printconf-0.3.44-1: alchemist >= 1.0.12, python ,
perl , PyXML , LPRng >= 3.7.4-9, m4, perl, ghostscript, pnm2ppa, bzip2, gzip,
foomatic, alchemist >= 1.0.12, newt >= 0.50.30, /bin/sh , /bin/sh , ld-linux.s
o.2 , libc.so.6 , /bin/bash , /bin/sh , /usr/bin/perl , /usr/bin/python ,
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) , libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
SM5....T c /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl
.......T c /etc/printcap.local James Collins
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[fluid11]

A symlink is a shortcut. You create one using ...

ln -s 'target' 'link_name'

If you want to make a shortcut for a file in your home directory called 'script' and put it in /usr/bin, then...

ln -s /home/chris/script /usr/bin/script



Those error messages from the 'rpm -V' mean that the package isn't really installed. Your missing a lot of dependencies, and it could become a lot of work fulfilling them. Is it possible for you to upgrade your OS to RH73? If not, I would look at other solutions or see if you can download the source code for this package somewhere, instead of an RPM. I did a quick search and couldn't find it. There are many other solutions that will work just fine. Check out this website...

http://www.linuxprinting.org/

ChrisP

 

[butchrecon]

The company I work for only provides RH7 to its customers. We need a way to install printers via the command line since we dial in over modems for support. Any suggestions? James Collins
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[fluid11]

Try CUPS -->

http://www.cups.org

 

[butchrecon]

The page keeps coming up as invalid for

http://www.cups.org

James Collins
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[butchrecon]

however

http://cups.org

worked. Thansk Will look at it. James Collins
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