I am new to cups and i was looking for a tutorial. I found one a few days ago on LQ but now i have no idea where it is. Apologies in advance for being such a newbie.

http://www.cups.org/documentation.php


i can give you the "big picture"...

basically, you install cups (unless it's already installed - it usually is), and then you start it:

on slackware the startup script is /etc/rc.d/rc.cups

you can also use pkgtool to make cups run on system startup...

in pkgtool, you just need to go into setup and then services - then just make sure rc.cups is selected...


once the cups daemon is running, you can open a browser and go to:

http://localhost:631

there you'll be able to set-everything-up...

=)



by the way, if you did a slackware default full-install, cups should already be installed...


you can check if it's installed with:

ls /var/log/packages/ | grep cups


and you can check if it's running with:

ps aux | grep cupsd

seems simple...thanks

you're welcome... good luck!!!

=)

you seem to be saving the linux community one newbie at a time