[cups.general] Installation problems

[russbucket]

Alex Finch wrote:

> 
>   I have been running cups for a while now and decided it might be time to
>   upgrade to a newer version. I downloaded
> cups-1.2.8-source.tar.gz
> uszipped it and did (as root)
> mkdir /test
> ./configure --prefix=/test
> make
> make install
> /test/sbin/cupsd
> connected to
> localhost:631 and added a printer which went ok ( i used root username and
> password)
> 
> Then a number of things do not work:
> 
> 1) clicked print test page and it said
> Unsupported format 'application/postscript'!
> 
> 2) On the administration page, if I try to click any of the options like
> "Show printers shared by other systems"
> 
> I get "permission denied"
> 
> 
> 3) If I try to edit the configuration file it comes up in the window ok,
> but I get
> 
> Error:
> 
>      No such file or directory
> 
> when I save it.
> 
> 4) I can do modify printer
> but
> set printer options
> gets
> Permission denied
> 
> 
> 
> The machine is running Scientific Linux 4.4 ( a clone of RHEL 4.4)
> It already has cups installed, but the server is not running.
> 
> Any ideas as to what is wrong would be welcome.
> 
>   Alex Finch
> 
Did you set up an administrative password (user)? This is done with the
lppasswd command. (man lppasswd)
-- 
Russ