"Right" way to update KDE

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:31:30AM -0700, sm wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Craig White wrote:
>=20
> > Kevin Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > uninstall lpr (rpm -e <package name>) then rpm -Uvh cups-<whatever ve=
rsion>
> > >
> > ----
> > I don't believe that the cups is needed at all. If printing is fine
> > using LPR - just leave it alone and don't install cups. I can't believe
> > that it is necessary for KDE 2.2.1 which should be mostly indifferent to
> > how printing occurs.
> >
>=20
>=20
> cups isn't needed at compile time, however, without it you lose a lot of
> the extended printing features of KDE.  KDE doesn't necesarilly require
> it, but if it's compiled with cups support in it, it will.
>=20
> It makes a lot of sense that a desktop environment cares how printing
> occurs.  Since printing is a large part of a lot of people's computer
> usage, it would be up to the environment to make printing available in a
> user friendly way.
>=20
> >From what I understand, if you have cups installed, it won't interfere
> with lpr, though the RPMs suggest otherwise.  I've had both installed
> before with no problems, though I generally compile things like that from
> source.  But cups is a lot easier to handle, and speaks the lpr protocol,
> anyway, so I eventually switchted over to that.

According to the CUPS manuals, CUPS replaces the LPR commands with it's own
variants. lpr, lpq, lprm, etc.

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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