Tom Allison wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11
libraries?
I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the
resources available for needlessly running X11.
If you have a resource-limited box, you probably don't want to run CUPS.
What is it you're trying to do. CUPS is only one of a few print spooler
systems available.
Doug.
It's not a limited box. But I have no need to have my RAM and CPU
invested in running X when it will never be used.
I've tried installing cups over the last two days and it's turning
into a real cluster of a mess. I think somewhere I was even able to
convince aptitude that it didn't really need to install dependencies -
I was messing around with apt.conf for a while. After restoring
apt.conf it was still giving me grief.
The last problem I had was that I could identify a printer, but when I
selected the PPD file to add the printer, everything would just hang
with no mention of errors or issues in debug mode.
I suppose if you really wanted to install cups with out the X11 deps,
you could try downloading the .debs from debian.org and then start using
dpkg --force-depends-version $packagename.deb. However, this could have
fun and interesting effects. I find it strange and even kind of
bizarre, this attitude that I don't want X libs on my box to free up the
resources because you don't have the resources available for needlessly
running X11. If this is the case, just don't run X and no resources are
used aside from some disk space.
OTOH, I can totally see why you would not want to run X from a security
point, and in that vain, even having it installed could lead to some
unknown exploit. OTHO, if you are going to be running a print server,
how critical could this box be?
I do share your frustration in what sometimes seems to be needless deps
(like operea , which I never use is called by gnome package and removing
it breaks tons of things.). I suppose you could always get the source
and recompile it for your secure installation? Baring that, start
trying the dpkg --force-depends-version and start installing the
packages one by one until you have a working cupsys.
HTH
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