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Hi, I am trying to get a printer hooked up to my server and am told i need CUPS installed. I have networking set up and the Centos 5 is a host to a Windows XP guest using VMware. I am trying to get the server to act as a print server and know next to nothing about Linux. Can anyone walk me through the process please? I have downloaded CUPS-1.4.1-source.tar.bz2 and CUPS-1.4.1-source.tar.gz but do not know how to install things on Centos (or anything but Windows). Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately i am not at all familiar with this. Perhaps i should have mentioned i have the Graphical form of Centos and do not understand the abbreviations or technical terms used yet, bit of a Centos dummy i'm afraid and really don't know where to start as this was all set up for me by someone who i cannot contact anymore. If you can offer step by step info i would be very grateful.
How do i check if CUPS is on the system as you have suggested?
If i need to, how do i use an RPM (whats an RPM?)where do i find it and how do i use it?
In basic terms RPM is a package management system used for managing software on your machine
YUM is similar and works with what are called software repositories for downloading and installing software packages and updates on your linux machine
1. Start a terminal window
2. you will receive a prompt like [root@hostname ~]#
3. this is where you can type in : - 'rpm -qa | grep cups'
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