cups - Common Unix Printing System HOWTO

ChangeLog


2010/05/30	- 1.3.11 -> 1.4.3
		- Updated the Slackware note for 13.0 and 13.1
2010/04/30	- Java howto link: j2sdk -> jdk
2009/07/12	- 1.3.7 -> 1.3.11
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.2, removed older than 11.0
2008/07/03	- Updated Slackware note for 12.1
2008/04/03	- 1.2.12 -> 1.3.7
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0
2007 Aug 15	- 1.2.11 -> 1.2.12
		- Note about 1.3.0
2007 Jun 09	- 1.2.10 -> 1.2.11
2007 Apr 19	- 1.2.7 -> 1.2.10
2007 Apr 16	- Removed gawk, sed, grep links
Nov 28, 2006	- 1.2.5 -> 1.2.7
Oct 26, 2006	- 1.2.2 -> 1.2.5
		- Updated Slackware note for 11.0
		- Added prerequisite links for D-Bus, OpenLDAP, pkg-config
Aug 2, 2006	- 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2
		- Removed the notes about cups' early security problems
Jun 9, 2006	- Added a few tidbits of configuration info
Jun 8, 2006	- 1.1.23 -> 1.2.1
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
		- Added uninstall instructions at the bottom
Feb 17, 2006	- Only run removepkg if it exists
		- Typo: fixed source path of installed cups.sh
Sep 22, 2005	- Updated the part that handles backing up /etc/cups
		  (if it exists)
Jun 15, 2005	- "gnutls" prerequisite is now a link to the new howto
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.1
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- root.root -> root:root, run it when $UID = 0
		- Rearrange options to shut up the new version of find
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Updated various notes
Jan 5, 2005	- 1.1.22 -> 1.1.23
		- Instead of mkdir rc0.d rc1.d, etc., use rc{0,1,...}.d
		- Added links to alternate download URLs (ftp2 is _very_
		  slow right now)
Dec 21, 2004	- 1.1.21 -> 1.1.22
Sep 16, 2004	- 1.1.20 -> 1.1.21
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
		- Replaced md5sum -> textutils link with a link to coreutils
		- Added a note about OpenSSL
		- Added a note about Java
		- Updated notes about init scripts, added a few blurbs to
		  create the SysV-style init script dirs if supported
		- Added a missing * to the part that moves things from
		  /usr/local/src/cups/ to /usr/local/src/
May 27, 2004	- Added a note to the bottom about adding a fax printer
Mar 18, 2004	- Changed Java prereq to point to my j2sdk howto
Mar 2, 2004	- Fixed the prereq link to nroff -> groff
Jan 7, 2004	- 1.1.19 -> 1.1.20
		- No more ~/installed/cups/ and /usr/local/src/cups/
		  (because everything other than cups is in it's own howto
		  now)
		- Changed download URL from ftp (Nevada) to ftp2 (Maryland),
		  it's closer to me
		- Updated security-related notes
		- Added lots more prerequisites
Sep 30, 2003	- Split hpijs and espgs off into their own howtos
		- Added a link to my libjpeg howto
Aug 5, 2003	- Fixed the link to the textutils howto
Jul 25, 2003	- Set to 'removepkg cups', it's included in Slack 9's "extra"
		- Set to 'removepkg espgs', it's part of Slack 9's ap series
		- In addition to 'removepkg gsfonts', also 'removepkg
		  gnu-gs-fonts' (renamed to the latter in Slack 9)
		- Put the fonts into /usr/share/ghostscript instead of
		  /usr/local/share/ghostscript
		- Changed the espgs prefix from /usr/local to /usr
		- Added removal of /usr/share/doc/hpijs-* dirs (done after
		  removepkg is called, in case removepkg leaves the blank
		  dir there or something like that)
Jul 1, 2003	- 1.1.18 -> 1.1.19, added md5sum verification of tarball
		- espgs (their modified ghostscript) 7.05.5 -> 7.05.6,
		  md5sum verification of it, removepkg of ghostscript and
		  gs_x11
		- Added --prefix=/usr/local to building it, otherwise it
		  uses the word NONE for the prefix...
		- Added removepkg of gsfonts, creation of
		  /usr/local/share/ghostscript if it does not exist
		- hpijs 1.3 -> 1.4.1, added removepkg hpijs
Jan 13, 2003	- Added notes about security problems in older versions of
		  cups
Jan 10, 2003	- Updated notes about removing old lpr
		- Added notes about setting up a cups client
Jan 3, 2003	- First entry

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