On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 04:41:58PM +0200, Anne Wainwright wrote: > Hell. > > Running: > openbsd 7.1 > cups 2.4.1 > gutenprint 5.3.4 > > Basically I am a newbie now setting up printing. I may have many things > wrong at this stage, BUT ... > > I determined that my printer (Canon MP280) was best served by > Gutenprint, which package I duly added. It appears that the Gutenprint > PPDs were not extracted to the gutenprint directory in the cups system. > > They should be extracted using the cups utility cups-genppd and I > checked the man page for details which is to say that the man page is > installed. However when attempting to run the utilility itself it is > reported as 'not installed' by ksh (either as user or root). > > Whereto from here? Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Hi. You don't need to run cups-genppd if you use cups. You can directly install your printer using the CUPS tools or its web interface (CUPS will create the ppd for you). If you want to manually create the ppd file, the complete name of the command is "cups-genppd.5.3". -- Antoine
