Re: [cups] CUPS 2 on RHEL 7
Jörg Thümmler <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.printing.cups.general |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Am 12.07.21 um 22:29 schrieb Johnnie W Adams: > Am I entirely wrong about the better printer driver available for CUPS 2? > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:10 AM Johnnie W Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Bryan, >> >> What I need is not CUPS per se but access to the better printer >> drivers. >> >> My understanding is that CUPS 2 includes an essentially universal >> printer driver. I'm being eaten alive by printer requests (they are NOT my >> strong suit) and the machine we Linux print from can't go to RHEL 8 till >> next year at the earliest. Thus my willingness to go outside the standard >> repos and maybe compile code. >> >> Thanks, >> >> John A >> >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:03 AM Bryan Mason <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 16:23 +0000, John Adams wrote: >>>> Hi, folks, >>>> >>>> I don't find an rpm for this on EPEL or in RedHat's repos. Does >>>> CUPS 2 run on RHEL 7? >>> >>> RHEL 7 ships with CUPS 1.6.3 (one of the latest versions available when >>> RHEL 7 was initially introduced), with some security and bug fixes >>> backported from later CUPS versions. CUPS 2.2.6 ships with RHEL 8. >>> >>> Out of curiosity, what features/fixes do you need in CUPS 2.2.x that >>> aren't in RHEL 7? >>> >>> ~ Bryan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cups mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups >>> >> >> >> -- >> John Adams >> Linux/Middleware Administrator | Information Technology Services >> +1-501-916-3010 | [email protected] | http://ualr.edu/itservices >> *UA Little Rock* >> >> Reminder: IT Services will never ask for your password over the phone or >> in an email. Always be suspicious of requests for personal information that >> come via email, even from known contacts. For more information or to >> report suspicious email, visit IT Security >> <http://ualr.edu/itservices/security/>. >> > > Hi, forgot to mention, the ppd files are part of the windows drivers. Installing such a driver on a usual windows gives you the chance to copy the ppd onto your linux machine... -- cu jth _______________________________________________ cups mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cups.org/mailman/listinfo/cups