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Re: Printers via SMB?



Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr@charter.net> writes:

> 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:~#

Err, learn how to use the tools available to you.

$ apt-cache search CUPS
[...]
cupsomatic-ppd - cups printer ppd's from LinuxPrinting.org
cupsys - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
cupsys-bsd - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
cupsys-client - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
[...]

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