How to unzip printer driver
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Sat Dec 16 18:15:23 PST 2006
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone please guide me on how to unzip CUPS printer driver? I downloaded the driver for my printer which end in *.ppd.gz and tried to unzip it using "gzip" and "gunzip" but no luck. I want to unzip the driver and put it in my /usr/local/cups/model directory.
>
> Thanks in advance for all the help.
You don't need to unzip *.ppd.gz files for CUPS to be able to install them. (The lpadmin commands as well as the web interface can handle zipped .ppd.gz files just fine). After a printer/driver installation, the expanded PPD will be in /etc/cups/ppd/.
That said, it is strange that "gunzip" didn't work for you...
Could it be a permission problem? (The user who runs the gunzip command has (a) either no right to read (and delete) the *.ppd.gz file, or (b) no right to write the new *.ppd file into the current directory).
What does "ls -la /path/to/your/ppdfile.ppd.gz" say?
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