Is there a precomplied version for dummies?

paul young paul.young at wiltshire.gov.uk
Fri Mar 11 07:41:15 PST 2011


Im updating cups on a solaris system, checking the /etc/release file I get the following info:

Solaris 10 5/09 s10s_u7wos_08 SPARC
           Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                             Assembled 30 March 2009

The main issue I have as far as patching is the software the site run on this server.

They have software from a company called Capita Software services which is used for local government benefits for housing, unemployment and that sort of thing.

Due to the type of software the patching of Solaris is governed by Capita as they can only test against some of the available patches.
This server is patched as high as Capita will allow for running there software.

By the looks of things I would say that the server is too long in the tooth for applying cups 1.4.6 in it's current state.

Can any one point out a version I could install at the current server level?

Regards

Paul



> 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
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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