On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:09 AM, 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
I finally found a web page that covers what I needed to know:
https://thelinuxcode.com/cups_print_server_ubuntu/
Hope it helps others!
Rick
