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Fedora printing from the command line
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| Tom Raab 2005-01-22, 5:45 pm |
| Previously ran RH 8 on a low end P2 PC. Using the GUI to set up
printing services allowed easy lpr activities from that server to a
network attached printer.
Recently installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3 on that low end PC. Of
course Fedora would not allow me to load the GUI. So now how do I get
lpr functions working? There appears to be no "cups" or "lpd" command
nor man pages from them. I did copy the content or the /etc/printcap
file from RH8 to the FC3 disk, but can't seem to start the deamon.
Any ideas?
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| @(none) 2005-01-22, 5:45 pm |
| Tom Raab wrote:
> Previously ran RH 8 on a low end P2 PC. Using the GUI to set up
> printing services allowed easy lpr activities from that server to a
> network attached printer.
>
> Recently installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3 on that low end PC. Of
> course Fedora would not allow me to load the GUI. So now how do I get
> lpr functions working? There appears to be no "cups" or "lpd" command
> nor man pages from them. I did copy the content or the /etc/printcap
> file from RH8 to the FC3 disk, but can't seem to start the deamon.
>
> Any ideas?
Silly question - but have you just tried "lpr filename". lpr should be
part of the default installtion.
If that doesn't work try to update with yum - I haven't tried this so
can't comment.
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| Spamless 2005-01-22, 8:45 pm |
| On 2005-01-22, Tom Raab <traab@cox.net> wrote:
> Previously ran RH 8 on a low end P2 PC. Using the GUI to set up
> printing services allowed easy lpr activities from that server to a
> network attached printer.
>
> Recently installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3 on that low end PC. Of
> course Fedora would not allow me to load the GUI. So now how do I get
> lpr functions working? There appears to be no "cups" or "lpd" command
> nor man pages from them. I did copy the content or the /etc/printcap
> file from RH8 to the FC3 disk, but can't seem to start the deamon.
>
> Any ideas?
Is there a system-config-printer-tui command (FC2 in /usr/bin/).
There should be system-config-printer-gui (graphics user interface)
and system-config-printer-tui (text user interface)
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| Tom Raab 2005-01-23, 2:45 am |
| Spamless wrote:
> On 2005-01-22, Tom Raab <traab@cox.net> wrote:
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> Is there a system-config-printer-tui command (FC2 in /usr/bin/).
> There should be system-config-printer-gui (graphics user interface)
> and system-config-printer-tui (text user interface)
Thank you.
That helped a bunch. Now I just have to figure out some of the info the
last item is looking for.
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| Scott Lurndal 2005-01-24, 5:45 pm |
| Tom Raab <traab@cox.net> writes:
>Spamless wrote:
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>Thank you.
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>That helped a bunch. Now I just have to figure out some of the info the
>last item is looking for.
And, if you are using CUPS and cupsd is runing, you can configure it
at the url "http://localhost:631/". You will need to set up a admin
account with lppasswd command first.
If you've configured FC to use LPrng, I'd recommend switching to CUPS,
it is more powerful.
However, cups uses SYSV commands (lp, lpadmin, lpstat) rather than
BSD commands (lpr, lpq, lprm) although the BSD commands will still
work properly if you switch from LPRng to CUPS using the redhat switch
tool.
scott
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