Oi, now the new printing system CUPS advanced from Contribs to Cooker! It is not beta any more and after 1.0 came out, a lot of additional bugfixes were done. This lead this program from being 0.?mdk to 1mdk. Drivers and frontends I will package soon and announce in another mail. For now use either the cups-driver package from contrib and the PPD file for Epson Stylus which I have attached to the announcement of the new GhostScript package (Do not forget to install this package, too). To install printers with a graphical environment use the web interface of CUPS surfing to http://localhost:631. Click on "Printers" and then on "Add Printer". In the login window log in as "root" on the local machine. For help and instructions click on "Help" in the web interface of CUPS. Printing now is only possible by the new lpr and lp commands (which are already much more comfortable than the old LPD ones). Graphical frontends (XPP, QTCUPS, and KUPS) will come in some days. Installation of the package: 1.) Remove LPD rpm -e rhs-printfilter rpm -e lpr rm -rf /var/spool/lpd 2.) Install the CUPS and GS packages (The last you only need when you want to compile CUPPS add-ons) rpm -Uvh cups-1.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh cups-drivers-0.3.6-1mdk.*.rpm (from contrib) rpm -Uvh ghostscript-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm rpm -Uvh ghostscript-module-X-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm cp com-stp.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/ rpm -Uvh cups-devel-1.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm 3.) Start the CUPS daemon immediately, so that you do not need to reboot for your first test: /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start 4.) Read the documentation and enjoy a new dimension of printing netscape http://localhost:631/documentation.html Have a lot of fun ... Till
