How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.
What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software?
Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install a GUI (though I realize they have a VGA port so it *is* possible to do so) for fear of running out of available RAM.
I'd like to install CUPS to interface the OpenRDs to my HP laser printer, but I haven't found any way to configure CUPS with only a CLI text console. The recommended way in the CUPS docs is to point a web browser at "localhost:631" but that doesn't work if you don't have a web browser on the machine. The way I've done it before involved using the "lynx" browser but that is very difficult and absolutely crazy-making.
The really best thing would be to connect from some some other, larger machine on the LAN that *does* have a GUI and web browser (for example, my desktop Mac) to the port that appears on the OpenRD as "http://localhost:631";. Some of my duck-duck-go-ing has produced things that hint this is possible, but didn't give any details.
But if there's a pure-CLI way to do it, I'd be happy with that, too.
Can you point me to some documentation that might help?
Thanks!
Rick
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