On Sunday 10 February 2002 09:55 pm, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I had printing working because from the CUPS web interface I can > print a test page. But that's all I can print! lpr /etc/aliases or lpr > /foo/anythiing else just shoots a blank sheet through. When I print from > samba, the print job seems to disappears. > > Question 1: how do I install lpadmin? Everything on CUPS refers to this > command but apt-get install cupsys didn't do it. I really prefer a command > line to a web interface so need this. > > Question 2: what is the correct command to print if you are using CUPS?
1. lpadmin is part of cups. if it isn't there, you might want to reinstall cups. you should find it in /usr/sbin. 2. on my system, lp does the job.
