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Originally Posted by alibaba508
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I presume that the code you gave me is to be entered in Terminal - [ told you I was a novice!]...
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The first line (the http-adress is to be inserted into the adressfield of your webbrowser (for example firefox), the second command has to be executed in a terminal (as root or with sudo).
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...so- when I installed Ubuntu 10:10 - would it have installed CUPS?...
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normally it should come with a stock-install, but I'm no expert with Ubuntu.
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...If not- I see that I have to download a tarball CUPS installer? - then I can use CUPS to try to find my printer.
Is that correct?...
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if cups is not installed you can install it from the repository of Ubuntu, that doesn't need a tarball. If you have cups already installed, you'll have to check that it's running. Cups is a daemon (for Windows-users: a service) which means that it runs in background and waits for printjobs. If you want to check if cupsd (the name of the daemon) is running you can do that with the command in my first post (the second one) and if it is running you can use the webinterface to configure your printer.
Note that if cups is installed and not running, you'll have to configure it to be started when the system starts. All I wrote until now is valid for any Linux-distribution. If you have Ubuntuspecific questions, I'd recommend to read their documentation.
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/...de/C/cups.html
Note that the webinterface for the configuration is not available until cupsd is running.
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