On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer
>> software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software?
>>
>> Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and
>> "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install a
>> GUI (though I realize they have a VGA port so it *is* possible to do
>> so) for fear of running out of available RAM.
>>
>> I'd like to install CUPS to interface the OpenRDs to my HP laser
>> printer, but I haven't found any way to configure CUPS with only a CLI
>> text console. The recommended way in the CUPS docs is to point a web
>> browser at "localhost:631" but that doesn't work if you don't have a
>> web browser on the machine. The way I've done it before involved
>> using the "lynx" browser but that is very difficult and absolutely
>> crazy-making.
>>
>> The really best thing would be to connect from some some other, larger
>> machine on the LAN that *does* have a GUI and web browser (for
>> example, my desktop Mac) to the port that appears on the OpenRD as
>> "http://localhost:631";. Some of my duck-duck-go-ing has produced
>> things that hint this is possible, but didn't give any details.
>>
>> But if there's a pure-CLI way to do it, I'd be happy with that, too.
>>
>> Can you point me to some documentation that might help?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rick
>
> without any desktop it can be set up with lpadmin. I found the hard bit
> was finding out what cups thought the printer was called.
>
> mick
Thanks, Mick!
Do you have any hints on "the hard part" (finding out what CUPS thinks it's
called) ?
Rick
