lpr and /etc/alternatives/print-lpr

Fred Nastos nastos at physics.utoronto.ca
Wed May 12 19:42:01 UTC 2004


>
> Fedora comes by default with cups, so install it. Maybe you will have to
> manually delete misleading links in /etc/alternatives/ afterwards.
>
> $ la /etc/alternatives/print*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17  8. Nov 2003  /etc/alternatives/print ->
> /usr/bin/lpr.cups
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20  8. Nov 2003  /etc/alternatives/print-cancel
> -> /usr/bin/cancel.cups
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 36  8. Nov 2003
> /etc/alternatives/print-cancelman ->
> /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz
> ...
>
> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/lpr.cups
> cups-1.1.19-13

Actually, when I ran the rpm command before (thinking that it wasn't 
installed) it said that it was allready installed.

I think the /usr/sbin/alternatives command was the right thing I had
to run.

Thanks





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