[cups.general] please help to Upgrade CUPS from 1.3.11 to 1.4.2

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Mar 26 12:22:58 PDT 2010


Oh, and this is a totally non-supported configuration, you do this at your own risk, etc. etc....

On Mar 26, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:

> [Please don't cross-post...]
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> On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:36 AM, RK wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade CUPS from 1.3.11 to 1.4.2 on mac OS 10.5 I can't seem to find CUPS 1.3.11 directory to uninstall. After I installed 1.4.2, I went http://localhost:631 and it gives 1.3.11. Is there any other options I can remove older version or upgrade to newer version. Thanks. ~RK
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> There is no single directory to "uninstall" - you basically just have to install 1.4.2 over top 1.3.11. However, I highly recommend using the source code from darwinsource since you can render a system unable to boot if you build CUPS with the wrong architectures.
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> If you *do* decide to build from the cups.org sources, the following configure options MUST be used on an Intel system:
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>    ./configure ... any other options ... --with-archflags="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc" --with-ldarchflags="-arch i386 -arch ppc" --disable--bannertops --disable-pdftops --disable-texttops
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> If you building for a PowerPC system use:
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>    ./configure ... any other options ... --with-archflags="-arch ppc -arch ppc64" --with-ldarchflags="-arch ppc" --disable--bannertops --disable-pdftops --disable-texttops
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