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Old 06-26-2005, 03:44 PM   #1
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Where are PPD files stored (gentoo/ubuntu)


Hiya

I'm looking for my PPD files in Gentoo and Ubuntu.

Can anyone tell me the path to them?

Hamish
 
Old 06-27-2005, 02:39 PM   #2
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On gentoo, installed ppds are in /etc/cups/ppd. The database is in /usr/share/ppd. For more information, try 'locate ppd'.
 
Old 06-27-2005, 04:50 PM   #3
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Hamish...547 posts in LQ and you can't find .ppd files in linux? Gnome user by any chance?

/usr/share/cups for me
 
Old 06-27-2005, 04:59 PM   #4
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Hey

You are both right.

I had been looking in /usr/share/cups/model/

D'oh!

cheers
Hamish
 
Old 06-27-2005, 08:02 PM   #5
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Hamish...547 posts in LQ and you can't find .ppd files in linux? Gnome user by any chance?

/usr/share/cups for me
And gnome has what to do with this?
 
Old 06-28-2005, 03:31 AM   #6
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And gnome has what to do with this?
it was just a reference to the belief held in some quarters that Gnome, fine and worthy GUI though it is, has a greater tendency to insulate the user from the command line that say KDE or flux. Much akin to how the DOS screen becomes harder to get at the further you get from 3.11

So in short it was a joke. Although now that I've had to explain it then it has ceased to be funny (if indeed it ever was). Must be a 'two peoples separated by a common language' thing.

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Old 06-28-2005, 08:07 AM   #7
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Anyway, I use command line for almost everything. In fact, I would be more likely to know how to do something in the shell than with gnome.

Anyway, you've all helped me fix the problem, so thank you.

Cheers
Hamish
 
Old 06-28-2005, 08:48 AM   #8
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it was just a reference to the belief held in some quarters that Gnome, fine and worthy GUI though it is, has a greater tendency to insulate the user from the command line that say KDE or flux. Much akin to how the DOS screen becomes harder to get at the further you get from 3.11

So in short it was a joke. Although now that I've had to explain it then it has ceased to be funny (if indeed it ever was). Must be a 'two peoples separated by a common language' thing.
Sorry I didn't get the reference. I personally always thought of KDE as being more insulating, but I'm not in the mood to get into a DE/WM fight.
 
Old 03-31-2012, 02:53 PM   #9
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my ppds are located in:

/usr/share/ppd/HP/

and

/usr/share/cups/model/HP/
 
  


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