Re: Printers via SMB?
On Saturday 15 March 2003 10:01 am, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> >>I'd like to be able to use the Epson from my computer, but I haven't a
> >>clue on how to mount a printer.
> >
> > Take a look at CUPS.
>
> jan-jr-ent:~# CUPS
> su: CUPS: command not found
> jan-jr-ent:~# man cups
> No manual entry for cups
> jan-jr-ent:~# apt-get install cups
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package cups has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package cups has no installation candidate
> jan-jr-ent:~#
This may be one of those cases where using dselect will be more helpfull.
Dselect, or aptitude , have search functions. Searching on cups shows
cupsys and some other cups related packages, *-gimp-print., etc. There are
some foomatic packages that have additional printer drivers also.
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Greg Madden
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