Sudo apt get install cups portable#

In the example above, you may comment out or remove the reference to the Loopback address (127.0.0.1) if you do not wish cupsd to listen on that interface, but would rather have it only listen on the Ethernet interfaces of the Local Area Network (LAN). Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock # existing socket Listen For example, if your CUPS server resides on a local network at the IP address 192.168.10.250 and you’d like to make it accessible to the other systems on this subnetwork, you would edit the /etc/cups/nf and add a Listen directive, as such: Listen 127.0.0.1:631 # existing loopback Listen

In order to instruct the CUPS server to listen on an actual network adapter’s IP address, you must specify either a hostname, the IP address, or optionally, an IP address/port pairing via the addition of a Listen directive. For example, if you are the Administrator for the CUPS server, and your e-mail address is then you would modify the ServerAdmin line to appear as such: ServerAdmin By default on Ubuntu, the CUPS server installation listens only on the loopback interface at IP address 127.0.0.1. ServerAdmin: To configure the email address of the designated administrator of the CUPS server, simply edit the /etc/cups/nf configuration file with your preferred text editor, and add or modify the ServerAdmin line accordingly. Prior to editing the configuration file, you should make a copy of the original file and protect it from writing, so you will have the original settings as a reference, and to reuse as necessary.Ĭopy the /etc/cups/nf file and protect it from writing with the following commands, issued at a terminal prompt: sudo cp /etc/cups/nf /etc/cups/ Some examples of settings you may wish to change initially will be presented here. The CUPS configuration file follows the same syntax as the primary configuration file for the Apache HTTP server, so users familiar with editing Apache’s configuration file should feel at ease when editing the CUPS configuration file. The Common UNIX Printing System server’s behavior is configured through the directives contained in the file /etc/cups/nf. If you make this change, remember to change it back once you’ve solved your problem, to prevent the log file from becoming overly large. If the error log does not show enough information to troubleshoot any problems you encounter, the verbosity of the CUPS log can be increased by changing the LogLevel directive in the configuration file (discussed below) to “debug” or even “debug2”, which logs everything, from the default of “info”.

Upon the conclusion of installation, the CUPS server will be started automatically.įor troubleshooting purposes, you can access CUPS server errors via the error log file at: /var/log/cups/error_log. Upon authenticating with your user password, the packages should be downloaded and installed without error. Enter the following at a terminal prompt to install CUPS: sudo apt install cups A complete CUPS install has many package dependencies, but they may all be specified on the same command line. To install CUPS on your Ubuntu computer, simply use sudo with the apt command and give the packages to install as the first parameter. CUPS also supports PostScript Printer Description (PPD) and auto-detection of network printers, and features a simple web-based configuration and administration tool.

Sudo apt get install cups portable#

This printing system is a freely available, portable printing layer which has become the new standard for printing in most Linux distributions.ĬUPS manages print jobs and queues and provides network printing using the standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), while offering support for a very large range of printers, from dot-matrix to laser and many in between. The primary mechanism for Ubuntu printing and print services is the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). Multi-node configuration with Docker-Composeĭistributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)