lprng in FC5

Tony Dietrich td at transoft-adsl.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 1 18:00:12 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 01 March 2006 12:48, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Boris Glawe wrote:
> >> You might have to go back to an old version Fedora (or even to Redhat 9)
> >> to find the SRPM of lprng and try to rebuild the RPM from that.
> >>
> >> Mogens
> >
> > Is it true, that redhat completely removed lprng from it's distro?
>
> It is not in RHEL 3. I don't know when it disappeared.
>
> Mogens
>
>
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I believe the functions of lprng are duplicated by the cups-lpd functions 
shipped with FC3 onwards.

Can your applications not use cups-lpd?  There are a large number of wrappers 
available for almost all printers that linux supports.
-- 
Tony




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