Install a Printer Without Xwindows

[butchrecon]

How do you install a printer without going into X-Windows? I know how to do it in X but when dialed in remotely X-Windows is not an option. Can any one help me? James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[ifincham]

Hi,





Well, if you had redhat 7.2 they have provided a tool called printtool-tui (printtool text utility) which seems to imply that the earlier versions missed out on that. It can be found in the 'printconf' rpm - you'll need to upgrade a lot of other rpms to satisfy the dependencies though. Other than that, you can try editing /etc/printcap by hand (see 'man 5 printcap'). The various print config tools that come with the main distros are listed here -->

http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/vendors.html

.





Hope this helps

 

[butchrecon]

I have Redhat 7. I am not an expert at Linux by all means. So some explanation would be benificial. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[Clived]

Another option might be getting the apsfilter script from freshmeat.net.

It does a super job at installing a printer, including setting up the /etc/printcap file. It can be run in console, and its real easy to setup, and it supports a lot of printers.



Hope this is of some help

 

[yeager]

Install CUPS (

http://www.cups.org

) and configure your printer via a browser.

//Daniel
CSA, CCSA, CCSE, AIX RS6000 certified lunatic