On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: > I used to tell everyone we need no fancy GUI for configuration as our > postinst scripts take care of all that. All you need to know is > dpkg-reconfigure if you want to change anything. > > That probably won't work with cups. I´m really sure that debconf could be used for that purpose. If you look at a /etc/cups/printers.conf file you see quite simple Variable Value pairs enclised in <printer name> </printer> brackets. Really do not see any reason why it should be impossible to use debconf to create such a file.
By the way: That lpadmin does not work seems to be a bug but a feature - at least I had the same result as you. :-(( The web frontend worked for me after some fiddling around (not after the plain install). Moreover I´m missing some information how /etc/cups/ppds.dat is generated and how I could add some local ppds to it. Kind regards Andreas.