Keith, Keith Bierman wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Keith Bierman wrote: > >> Having had some issues with the CUPS installation from blastwave with >> a particular nevada build+local environment I figured I'd try the >> companion CD version just to see if that cured things (of course, >> blastwave's worked fine with a previous nevada build (51) so I'm >> betting it's something changed in nevada_current ;>). But that's not >> the point of my post, just background. >> >> wget (wgot?) the entire CD and then looked for CUPS. Not a problem, >> but pkgadd -d SFWcups etc. resulted in some warnings about needing >> other packages. So pkgadded them, etc. This seemed a whole lot more >> tedious than the blastwave pkg-get .... >> >> Am I missing something about pkgadd usage, or have we built the >> companion packages in a way that's suboptimal (viz. adding a bit of >> functionality should appear more like adding functionality ... not >> playing hunt the needle ;>)?? > > > Oh, and I neglected to mention that despite it being loaded, it's not > actually running (even with a reboot) ... as opposed to the pkg-get > which ended up with CUPS running even sans reboot. No doubt, there's > some critical step or document I failed to read ... clues appreciated! >
If you want all the bits for the "Solaris CUPS Print Suite" from the Companion CD (CCD) you need to install the package SFWcprnt, and all its dependencies; this will give you CUPS, esp-gs, foomatics, etc. The README files for SFWcups and SFWcprnt tells you how to set and start CUPS (from the CCD) on Solaris, see /opt/sfw/READMEs/README.SFWcups + README.SFWcprnt. The installation does not set it up to start automatically at boot time (as CCD packages aren't allowed to to install stuff in the normal places, it all installs into /opt/sfw). Note, the "Solaris CUPS Print Suite" package versions on the CCD are all lagging behind the current official versions from the community as they haven't been updated for a long long time (over 2 years), for example I think CUPS on the CCD is at version 1.1.21, whereas the community version is 1.2.6 (or even higher). Also note, on the web download site there used to be a tarball bundle for all the cups printing stuff that made it easier to grab all the required packages in one go, but I'm not sure if that is still put on the sdlc web site for the ccd packages. Hope that helps Paul PS. I've CCed this to the printing-discuss alias for their information.
