How to unzip printer driver

Julian Kiel ordonezivan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 18 11:14:06 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?

Thanks for the response.

"ls -la /path/to/your/ppdfile.ppd.gz" gives me this:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 38204 Dec 12 22:12 hp2100_4.ppd.gz

Thanks again.






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