I have a HP Photosmart 7150 and I am trying to install it on Linux. I
want to try Cups. Is there a guide that tells a simple way of
installing cups on Slackware 9.0? I noticed in rc.M that there is an
if statement that searches for /etc/rc.d/rc.cups. I don't see that
file anywhere.

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:14:53 -0800, Mark Constant wrote:

> I have a HP Photosmart 7150 and I am trying to install it on Linux. I
> want to try Cups. Is there a guide that tells a simple way of
> installing cups on Slackware 9.0? I noticed in rc.M that there is an
> if statement that searches for /etc/rc.d/rc.cups. I don't see that
> file anywhere.

I believe that the Cups package is on the extra CD on the Slackware
install disks. And installing Cups is the easy part. You'll also need the
HP Officejet linux drivers. Check out this page:

http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/

The documentation is pretty straightforward. One thing to note is that
with both Cups and LPRng installed, your printing commands need to be
tailored a bit. Instead of "lpr", you would use, "lpr-cups". This was
the only issue I ran into. I guess another solution would be to first
uninstall LPRng, and then install Cups. Hope that helps!

--The Revenant