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