CUPS

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	# cd /usr/ports/print/cups		# cd /usr/ports/print/cups
	# make install clean		# make install clean
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		+	==Install a Parallel Printer==
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		+	If you use an old parallel printer then you need to do the following before you add the printer through cups:
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		+	# chown root:cups /dev/lpt0
		+	# chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0
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		+	Now add these lines to /etc/devfs.conf so that the permissions are set during boot time
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		+	own    /dev/lpt0    root:cups
		+	perm  /dev/lpt0    0660
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		+	Now go back into the cups setup http://localhost:631 and add your printer, you will notice that there is now a Parallel device present.
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	==KDE Setup==		==KDE Setup==

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Revision as of 18:49, 10 October 2007

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) This makes it easy to add printers to your system and programs such as firefox will pick up the printer list automatically.

Contents 1 Installing CUPS 2 Install a Parallel Printer 3 KDE Setup 3.1 Openoffice 3.2 xpdf 4 CUPS to PDF 5 CUPS mimics lpr 6 CUPS Troubleshooting 6.1 CUPS with proxy 6.2 CUPS and KDE Error 6.3 CUPS and Gnome Warning 7 links

Installing CUPS

# pkg_add -r cups

or

# cd /usr/ports/print/cups
# make install clean

Install a Parallel Printer

If you use an old parallel printer then you need to do the following before you add the printer through cups:

# chown root:cups /dev/lpt0
# chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0

Now add these lines to /etc/devfs.conf so that the permissions are set during boot time

own    /dev/lpt0    root:cups
perm   /dev/lpt0    0660

Now go back into the cups setup http://localhost:631 and add your printer, you will notice that there is now a Parallel device present.

KDE Setup

You can setup any non KDE applications such as Openoffice to use the KDE printer dialogue by setting up the default printer of that applications as:

kprinter -stdin

Openoffice

Change the default printer in openoffice spadmin program

xpdf

Add the following to /usr/X11R6/etc/xpdfrc config file.

psFile                  "|kprinter -stdin"

CUPS to PDF

CUPS can also be used to print directly from any program to a PDF file.

# pkg_add -r cups-pdf

CUPS mimics lpr

If you have old programs which use lpr to print then you should install CUPS-lpr

# pkg_add -r cups-lpr

CUPS Troubleshooting

CUPS with proxy

Make sure if you run a proxy to set localhost in the exceptions of your browser. Should now be able to connect to http://localhost:631

CUPS and KDE Error

If you get an error in KDE print manager such as: cups host not found.

Then change the host from host: /var/run/cups.sock to host: localhost

CUPS and Gnome Warning

I've installed CUPS on a few machines and found everytime I do I cannot print though any gnome based application. If you like to use gnome applications to print your work, don't install CUPS just use LPD.

programs which crashed right out when printing were: gedit, abiword, gnumeric, inkscape.

Error you will get

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnumeric

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
[Switching to Thread 3 (LWP 100326)]
0x29dfd450 in ippWriteIO (dst=0x8542000, cb=0x29dfa3bc <httpWrite>,
    blocking=1, parent=0x0, ipp=0x8517880) at ipp.c:1418
1418    ipp.c: No such file or directory.
        in ipp.c

links

http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=36