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CUPS Administrative Guide

By : Ankur Shah
Book Image

CUPS Administrative Guide

By: Ankur Shah

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CUPS Administrative Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Installing a Binary Distribution


You can also build binary packages that can be installed on other machines using the RPM spec file (packaging/cups.spec) or EPM list file (packaging/cups.list). The latter also supports building of binary RPMs (Red Hat Package Manager), which makes it more convenient to use.

Building RPMs

You can find the RPM software at http://www.rpm.org/.

The source distributions include an RPM spec file that can be used to build RPM packages for your Linux distribution. The rpmbuild command is used to build from the tar files:

#rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.gz

Or

#rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.bz2

You will need the gcc, libjpeg, libjpeg-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, libtiff, libtiff-devel, zlib, and zlib-devel packages installed to compile CUPS with all the standard functionalities. The krb5-devel and krb5-libs packages, openldap and openldap-devel packages, openslp, and openslp-devel packages will allow support for Kerberos (CUPS 1.3.x only), LDAP, and SLP...