Is there a precomplied version for dummies?

[Helge Blischke]

paul young wrote:

> 
> 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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>>
I successfully compiled cups 1.3.5 from the sources on Solaris 10.
The only restriction I remember is the option "--without-gssapi" as a 
configure option. as the Kerberos installation at that time was too buggy 
(and we needed no Kerberos as it was in a company-local area).

So any 1.3.x should go ahead (if in doubt, you can get my 1.3.5 sources 
which contain some modifications, though).

Helge