[cups.general] Filter Compilation Problem

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS doesn't look in /etc/cups/ppd for the list of drivers reported by the web interface or "lpinfo -m".  On Linux you need to install in one of the following locations:

    /usr/share/cups/model
    /usr/share/ppd
    /usr/local/share/ppd
    /opt/share/ppd

On Aug 16, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> I'm running CUPS 1.4.4 from the cups.org distribution on CentOS 5.5 (whose CUPS, 1.3.7, is already over two years old).  I have a Seiko label printer driver/filter distribution that involves a makefile and I've been able to put a series of symlinks together to make that makefile work.  I wind up with a siislp450.ppd file in the Seiko source distro tree.
> 
> When I got this to work successfully before under Gentoo and CUPS 1.4.4 brought in entirely through Portage, Gentoo's package management system, I could gzip this PPD file, mkdir /etc/cups/ppd/seiko, and copy the gzipped PPD file into it and once that was done and CUPS was restarted, I could go into the CUPS Web app, create a new print queue, select "SII" from the "Make" box, Select "SLP450" from the "Model" box that followed, and I'm off to the races.  However, if I try to go through the same process on the CentOS 5.5 machine with setting up /etc/cups/ppd/seiko/siislp450.ppd.gz and restarting CUPS and clearing my browser cache, I do not get "SII" in the list of makes - I just see the list provided by Foomatic.
> 
> So given the use of a CUPS 1.4.4 instance built from upstream source, where can I move or symlink siislp450.ppd.gz so that the Web app knows to pick it up and insert "SII" in the make list?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair