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CUPS Administrative Guide

You're reading from  CUPS Administrative Guide

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2008
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781847192585
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Ankur Shah Ankur Shah
Profile icon Ankur Shah

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

CUPS Administrative Guide
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
2. Preface
1. Introduction 2. Building and Installing CUPS 3. Printer Management 4. Managing Multiple Printers at a Time 5. CUPS Server Management 6. Client Setup 7. Quota Management 8. Monitoring CUPS 9. File Typing and Filtering 10. Security

Installing a Binary Distribution


You can also build binary packages that can be installed on other machines using the RPM spec file (packaging/cups.spec) or EPM list file (packaging/cups.list). The latter also supports building of binary RPMs (Red Hat Package Manager), which makes it more convenient to use.

Building RPMs

You can find the RPM software at http://www.rpm.org/.

The source distributions include an RPM spec file that can be used to build RPM packages for your Linux distribution. The rpmbuild command is used to build from the tar files:

#rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.gz

Or

#rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.bz2

You will need the gcc, libjpeg, libjpeg-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, libtiff, libtiff-devel, zlib, and zlib-devel packages installed to compile CUPS with all the standard functionalities. The krb5-devel and krb5-libs packages, openldap and openldap-devel packages, openslp, and openslp-devel packages will allow support for Kerberos (CUPS 1.3.x only), LDAP, and SLP...

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