[cups] CUPS 2 on RHEL 7

[Johnnie W Adams]

Hi, Bryan,

     What I need is not CUPS per se but access to the better printer
drivers.

     My understanding is that CUPS 2 includes an essentially universal
printer driver. I'm being eaten alive by printer requests (they are NOT my
strong suit) and the machine we Linux print from can't go to RHEL 8 till
next year at the earliest. Thus my willingness to go outside the standard
repos and maybe compile code.

Thanks,

     John A

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:03 AM Bryan Mason <bjmason at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 16:23 +0000, John Adams wrote:
> > Hi, folks,
> >
> >      I don't find an rpm for this on EPEL or in RedHat's repos. Does
> > CUPS 2 run on RHEL 7?
>
> RHEL 7 ships with CUPS 1.6.3 (one of the latest versions available when
> RHEL 7 was initially introduced), with some security and bug fixes
> backported from later CUPS versions.  CUPS 2.2.6 ships with RHEL 8.
>
> Out of curiosity, what features/fixes do you need in CUPS 2.2.x that
> aren't in RHEL 7?
>
> ~ Bryan
>
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