[SOLVED] CUPS

turboscrew · 05-29-2015, 07:03 AM

Is there CUPS later than 1.5.x in some repo?
I haven't found. Tried "slackpkg search cups" and sbopkg/search.
The 1.5.x version(s) have a bug that makes it incompatible with my printer.

bassmadrigal · 05-29-2015, 07:13 AM

There's cups 2.x in -current. I think it requires cups-filters as well.

http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...ource/ap/cups/
http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa.../cups-filters/

Make sure you actually compile them, because the packages won't work in 14.1 due to differences in libraries. Also, the links I provided are for Slackware64 (although, the source between the 32bit and 64bit versions is probably the same).

turboscrew · 05-29-2015, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

There's cups 2.x in -current. I think it requires cups-filters as well.

http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...ource/ap/cups/
http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa.../cups-filters/

Make sure you actually compile them, because the packages won't work in 14.1 due to differences in libraries. Also, the links I provided are for Slackware64 (although, the source between the 32bit and 64bit versions is probably the same).

Thanks.
I realized the links were for 64-bit system. I have 32-bit system, but I edited the "slackware64" to "slackware" in your link and there they were.

bassmadrigal · 05-29-2015, 08:23 AM

Most likely, you could've still grabbed the files from the 64bit mirror since it's just the source. It's likely the sources, slackbuilds, and patches are the same for both 32bit and 64bit. But I guess it's probably better to be safe than sorry

Good luck!

turboscrew · 05-29-2015, 08:26 AM

OK, thanks.
[EDIT]
I think it's a real thing:
Mirrors for http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...0.2-i486-3.txz
[/EDIT]

bassmadrigal · 05-29-2015, 08:38 AM

The resulting packages will be different on the 32bit and 64bit mirrors, but the source between that creates the packages is likely the same. The package would be built as 32bit on a 32bit system and 64bit on a 64bit system (unless you have multilib set up and run the compat32 script that switches build environments). This is why the majority of slackbuilds on SBo are the same for both 32bit and 64bit.

Just more of a "in case you didn't know" post than anything

turboscrew · 05-29-2015, 08:49 AM

Installed it and the filters.
Cups started fine and the web-gui opened fine.
Thanks.