[cups.general] Installation problems

[Alex Finch]

It doesn't mention that in the installation guide? Anyway I tried it and it said

/test/bin/lppasswd
Enter password:
Enter password again:
lppasswd: user "root" and group "lp" do not exist.
lppasswd: Password file not updated!


russbucket wrote:
> 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)


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