OK.  On I go with what I have done.

In the CUPS System Administrators Manual is a section about installing from 
the source.  In that section is this:

"For the image file filters and PostScript RIP, you'll need the JPEG, PNG, 
TIFF, and ZLIB libraries. CUPS will build without these, but with 
significantly reduced functionality."

I don't want reduced functionality.  I don't know if I already have these 
libraries installed or not.  So, I downloaded them and did "./configure", 
"make" and "make install" on each one except PNG.  PNG had it's own build 
instructions and did not use AutoConf.  I did them in reverse alphabetical 
order because PNG stated that it is dependent on ZLIB.

That being done, I did "./configure", "make" and "make install" on CUPS 
1.1.12 sources.  Aside from a few warnings, all went well.

So now I am at the point where I should do the three steps I describe below.  
Should I do it or will I end up with a completely un-printing system?

Alan

On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote:
> Correction, LPD not LPR is handling the printing on my system.
>
> How about (educated guessing here):
>
> 1. Remove LPD with "rpm -e lpd"
> 2. ./configure, make, etc. CUPS from the source I downloaded
> 3. Try to print something
>
> Alan
>