On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:45:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > >>Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11 > >>libraries? > >> > >>I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the > >>resources available for needlessly running X11. > > > >If you have a resource-limited box, you probably don't want to run CUPS. > >What is it you're trying to do. CUPS is only one of a few print spooler > >systems available. > > It's not a limited box. But I have no need to have my RAM and CPU > invested in running X when it will never be used. > > I've tried installing cups over the last two days and it's turning into > a real cluster of a mess. I think somewhere I was even able to convince > aptitude that it didn't really need to install dependencies - I was > messing around with apt.conf for a while. After restoring apt.conf it > was still giving me grief. > > The last problem I had was that I could identify a printer, but when I > selected the PPD file to add the printer, everything would just hang > with no mention of errors or issues in debug mode. My question was really, why are you bothering with CUPS? Personally, I use lpr and aps-filter. I've also used LPRng. I once used LPRng with foomatic-printfilters. foomatic- uses cupsys but it doesn't use CUPS as a spooler but you do get the enhanced features from the gs-esp stuff. You just have to ensure that you tell foomatic what your default print spooler system is, otherwise it complains that it can't find CUPS.
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