Re: broken CUPS -- please help

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:25:54 +0100

In alt.os.linux AA <AA@example.com>:
> Hello,

> I'm running Redhat 9 upgraded to 2.6 kernel. I've been having some
> trouble with my CUPS, so I uninstalled it making liberal use of the
> "--nodeps" argument to rpm -e. I then downloaded the latest CUPS from
> cups.org and installed it. The service starts fine, but I seem to have
> broken the printer configuration program. When I execute
> 'printconf-gui' I get the following output:

[..]

> Assuming I've broken this by uninstalling the rpms, is there another
> more standard way of configuring printers? Is there a gui program I can
> install or will I be editing config files?

Assuming cupsd is up, all you need is to point your browser to
http://>:631/, where you replace <linuxbox> with the
name or IP of your system, use localhost if you are working on
the system.

Good luck 

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