Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:51:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Travis Cole <> | Subject | RE: Printer setup in linux |
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It really depends on your didsribution and what software you have installed for it. If you have RedHat all you have to do is as root, run printtool or run it from control-panel. Setting your printer using printtool should be very straight forward and present few if any problems. Look at my list of programs for Debian if you need some help figuring out which programs to install
If you are using Debian you should probaby install: lprng but lpr should also work. magicfilter gs ghostview mpage ppp-gs ghostscript gsfonts
You may not need all of these and you may need more, this is just what I can come up with right now.
Once you get all that installed then you can run /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig and it will ask a few questions and setup an /etc/printcap for you that should work.
If you have Slackware or some other distribution I can't really help. You should read the printcap man page, both of the prining how-tos, and the lpr man page. You may also want to search some mailing list archives. Try the archives at each of these sites. http://www.caldera.com, http://www.redhat.com (the search is broken here, but these archives hold a lot of good info) http://www.debian.org and possibly http://www.linuxhq.com
I hope this limited amount of info helps.
On 29-Jul-97 Elcin Haktanir wrote: >Hi!! I'm an inexperienced linux user from Marmara University, Turkey. I >want to setup a Star dot m. printer in linux, but although I've searched >many sources, I couldn't find anything. Can you help me to find some >info? > > You can use 'reply', or better access me at >cagin@kibris.ceng.marun.edu.tr. > > Thanks for being interested... >
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