OK, I give up. How do I configure a printer on Centos 8 Stream? I can't find any tools for doing that. further, there doesn't seem to be a cups executable (which should allow setting up a printer) though there ARE a bunch of cups packages installed. Anyone got any clues for me? Thanks in advance! Fred
Hi Fred, can you share a little bit more information? For example, are you using the default Gnome desktop environment? What kind of printer do you have? How is it connected to C8S (USB, Wi-Fi, Ethernet...?) I use Gnome, and it's been a long time since I had to poke around with CUPS. My Brother printer (MFC-9340CDW) is pretty old these days, but still works after I download and install the "Driver Install Tool" RPM from the brother.com website... On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:16 PM Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote:> OK, I give up. How do I configure a printer on Centos 8 Stream? I can't > find any tools for doing that. > > further, there doesn't seem to be a cups executable (which should allow > setting up a printer) though there ARE a bunch of cups packages installed. > > Anyone got any clues for me? > > Thanks in advance! > > Fred > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Fred wrote:> OK, I give up. How do I configure a printer on Centos 8 Stream? I can't > find any tools for doing that. > > further, there doesn't seem to be a cups executable (which should allow > setting up a printer) though there ARE a bunch of cups packages installed.According to <https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html> The everywhere driver is used for nearly all modern networks printers sold since about 2009. For example, the following command creates a destination for a printer at IP address 11.22.33.44: lpadmin -p printername -E -v ipp://11.22.33.44/ipp/print -m everywhere On a Fedora 35 machine, which should probably be pretty close to C8S, the lpadmin executable is provided by the standard cups rpm $ rpm -qf $(which lpadmin) cups-2.3.3op2-11.fc35.x86_64 Hope this helps, Barry