[cups.general] Is there a precomplied version for dummies?

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Mar 11 06:49:28 PST 2011


On Friday, March 11, 2011 09:23:17 AM paul young did opine:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm very, very new to Unix and need to install (upgrade cups) 1.4.6 from
> 1.2.7.
> 
> I have tried to use the source files downloadable from this site and
> after 3 days of running the configure script started to post errors
> onto the forum.
> 
> The people here are very good and very quick to answer but it seems the
> help has dried up a little.
> 
> I managed to configure cups in the end but then started getting error
> after error while running "make check".
> 
> It seems that as I bypass one error I walk directly into another, coming
> from the dummies area of support (Windows) Ive not been in this
> position before.
> 
> Is there a way to download a pre-configured version of cups that I can
> just hit Install and update my system without any errors?
> 
First, a version that old is quite likely from a linux install equally old, 
and the changes and enhanced security in the elapsed time since, would 
probably hake it a good idea to invest in a new hard drive, and 1 Tb drives 
are the $70 commodity drives today, install it in the computer and install 
a current release of linux on that drive without touching the drive your 
are using now.

I installed 32 bit 'pclos' on this 64 bit box about 9 months ago, and have 
been rather pleased with it since.  It is a rolling update release, meaning 
that it is, on this machine, exactly as if I had downloaded the most recent 
install disk and installed it.  There is no fixed, gets obsolete, release 
schedule.

There have been some teething problems with kde, resulting in up to 224 
packages related to it being replaced, several times in the past few 
months, but other than that (I have been a kde fan, anti-gnome at times 
since kde 1.5, so I guess that dates me too) it has been quite stable while 
staying reasonably current with all the application software like cups, 
which to put this back on topic is 1.4.6 and has worked well since the 
gitgo.

Two components of linux I build from scratch, the kernel, currently at 
2.6.37 because there were changes in the scheduler that make the desktop 
experience much more pleasant, and the backup program amanda, currently at 
3.2.1.

By using a different drive, you can 'mount' and access the old drive to 
copy your data as you discover you need it, so there is much less chance 
that you'll lose your corpus of email, and some of mine reaches back 9 
years now, about 21Gb of it.  I need to do some housekeeping but I have the 
virus known as pack-rat-itis. :)  I think it goes with the number of 
calendars I've thrown away...

> Regards
> 
> Now slightly bolding, Paul

Now a long time grey, Gene

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