hello,
friends, I am trying to configure printer on my machine, I am aware of utility "system-config-printer", But I want to configure my printer using cli tool, which is based on ncurses like authconfig-tui.
I have tried searching same on google nothing good came up, I found some thing that is printconf-tui which seems to be deprecated in rhel5

I have also tryed this.
# yum whatprovides printconf-tui
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erronously match against filenames.
You can use "*/printconf-tui" and/or "*bin/printconf-tui" to get that behaviour
No Matches found

All I want to do is to find alternate for system-config-printer which can run in cli mode without graphic.


Thank you
pix

Hi Pix,

Y cant u try configure using CUPS..
Here is the steps to configure the printer using cups

1. Download the PPD’s of respective printers from their websites.
2. Su - root
3. mkdir /usr/share/cups/model/(Printer Manufacturer name)
4. cp *.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/foldername
5. service cups restart
6. Open the conqueror or mozilla
7. http://localhost:631
8. Click Administration tab
9. It prompts for user name & password(give root & its password)
10. Add printer
11. Give printer name (It should not contain space ,any special characters)
12. Enter location
13. Enter Descriptions
14. Device-Internet Printing Protocol
15. Device-URL-socket://hostname:9100 (Give the hostname of the printer)



dats it

cheers!!!!

Thank you for replying
I will try it

u are welcome