LPRng-3.8.28

Introduction to LPRng

The LPRng package contains an enhanced, extended and portable implementation of the Berkeley Line PRinter (LPR) print spooler. This is useful for queuing print jobs.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://www.lprng.com/DISTRIB/LPRng/LPRng-3.8.28.tgz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng/LPRng/LPRng-3.8.28.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 1b3a0abd291b260eab6087ac0e61ed84
Download size: 10.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 71.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.42 SBU

LPRng dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-0.9.7e, tcpwrappers-7.6, Heimdal-0.6.3 or MIT krb5-1.4, and krb4

Installation of LPRng

Install LPRng by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/lprng \
    --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-shared &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/lprng-3.8.28 &&
cp -v -R DOCS/* PrintingCookbook \
    /usr/share/doc/lprng-3.8.28

Configuring LPRng

Config files

/etc/printcap and /etc/lpd/*

Configuration Information

There is no generic printcap for all printers. A sample printcap is loaded into the /etc directory which can be of some help. Information is also available at http://www.lprng.org, http://www.linuxprinting.org and the documentation installed in /usr/share/doc/lprng-3.8.28.

The init script installed by LPRng is not consistent with other BLFS scripts; therefore, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/lprng init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-6.0 package (as the root user):

make install-lprng

Note

You may also want to remove the lpd script that was installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d.

cancel: is a symlink to lprm used to send cancel requests to an LPRng print service.
checkpc: checks out the printcap database.
lp: is a symlink to lpr used to send requests to an LPRng print service.
lpc: is a control program for the lpd daemon.
lpd: is the print queueing daemon.
lpq: is a status monitoring program.
lpr: is a print job spooler program.
lprm: is a print job removal program.
lprng_certs: is a program used to manage SSL certificates for the LPRng software.
lprng_index_certs: creates a set of index files in the LPRng signing certificate directory.
lpstat: is a print job status reporting program.
liblpr.[so,a]: contains the API functions used by the LPRng programs.

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