Quoting Fel Bryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> How do I configure debian to use a printer? I've read the how-tos but
> it seems too generalized.... With Redhat and madrake they have a sort
> of configuration utility for printers, does debian have one?
Printer setup on Unix in general is kind of miserable. I happen to have
finally gotten around to setting it up on my Debian server, as follows:
Install packages gs, apsfilter, a2ps, mpage, recode, enscript, lpr.
(You could almost certainly make this work with gnulpr or lprng, instead
of lpr. I'm just mentioning something I made work easily.)
Now (still as root), run apsfilterconfig. This will create the
necessary spool directory(ies) and configure the entry or entries in
/etc/printcap. Save. Exit. Restart lpd. And you're done.
That was on a machine that doesn't have X11 (a server). It might be
easier to install CUPS on your typical Debian workstation:
# apt-get install cupsys foomatic-db foomatic-bin
I don't have any experience with that, though, and tend to flee from
Unix printing in convulsive horror. ;->
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