Michael H. Collins wrote:
> Ok. I give up. I want to remove cups and go to lpd. I
> rpm -e cups and all that goes with it
> and rpm -i lpd and its goodies. I start printtool and it
> either installs cups or
> <if the cd is not in the drive> fails. What is up with
> that?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. I am on the verge of
> putting a REDHAT 6.2 Print server
> in this network. :-(
>
> Oh, yes, Remember, I am the fellow who cannot get
> smbprint to print to 98 boxen.
> If I smbclient in with a P I can print whatever. I am
> close..
>
> Please halp.
Michael....here's how I did it (maybe you can compare and see
what you might have done differently):
remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version
you'll have to allow for the version differences)
rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-21mdk
rpm -e --nodeps cups-common-1.1.6-21mdk
rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-1.0-30mdk
rpm -e --nodeps kups-1.1-6mdk
rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-2.1-11mdk
then delete these directories
/var/spool/cups
/var/log/cups
/usr/share/cups
/usr/lib/cups
/etc/cups
then put the following rpm files in an otherwise empty
directory and install them all at once using:
rpm -ivh *
lpr-0.50-10mdk.i586.rpm
rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm
printtool-3.43-2mdk.noarch.rpm (mdk 7.0)
control-panel-3.11-17mdk (mdk 7.2)
mpage-2.5.1-12mdk (7.2)
if, like I did, you get a dependency error for printtool
needing rhs-printfilters-with-ppa then add a nodeps to the
command line like this:
rpm -ivh --nodeps *
Then open a console window, 'su -' to become root
and execute printtool to set up a printer.
It's working just fine on my mdk 8.0 system.
--
Alan
