[ale] CUPS Newbie

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

> Robert Heaven wrote:
> > I think I figured out why I was having a problem. As I was reading the 
> > cups help documentation, and attempting to execute the commands it was 
> > recommending (lpstat -p -d), I kept noticing I was getting responses 
> > from the lpd system. (referring to /etc/printcap and /var/spool/lpd) At 
> > first, being ignorant, I thought maybe cups was using lpd as a backend. 
> > As I read further I found out the cups system replaces most of the lpd 
> > programs (they're mutually exclusive) with it's own so by re-installing 
> > cups I now have the correct programs for cups to work.
> > 
> > I'm beginning to think that the install/setup tool on the slackware CD 
> > needs to pay attention to the order in which it installs certain 
> > applications.
> 
> It may be one of those last one in wins things.  If cups was installed, 
> then lprng, lprng overlays cups.  This should not happen, since they are 
> mutually exclusive, if one's installed, a second should complain or 
> remove the first before installing.
> 
> I had a similar problem on RH 7.3 where both lprng and cups were 
> installed at the same time.

On Red Hat and Debian, alternatives is used to allow both to coexist nicely. 
alternatives --config print is what you use to select.

Slackware doesn't go in for things like that, though....

later,
chris