How to unzip printer driver

[Julian Kiel]

Kurt Pfeifle,

I got it to work.  Thank you for all the help.  You are right, I don't even have to unzip the driver even if the extension is *.ppd.gz.

Thanks again.


> > > 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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> Thanks for the response.
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> "ls -la /path/to/your/ppdfile.ppd.gz" gives me this:
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> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 38204 Dec 12 22:12 hp2100_4.ppd.gz
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> Thanks again.
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