[nylug-talk] cups "lphelp" binary anyone???

Ron Guerin
Wed Nov 22 03:01:41 EST 2006


Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:42:50AM -0500, R. Mariotti wrote:
>> Gentlemen;
> 
>> Believe it or not - I don't have a working compiler environment on my 
>> desktop Kubuntu 6.06.1 system.  I am in need of a binary of the cups 
>> utility "lphelp" to assist with my PPD.
> 
>> Does anyone have it installed that they can attach to an email?
> 
>> Please advise.
> 
> Hi bobmct,
> The Debian (and presumedly Ubuntu) command 'apt-file search lphelp' turns
> up nil. 

Based on past experience, I find this is generally the symptom of
searching for obsolete software.

> So, I did this:
> kevin at sarge:~$ apt-file search bin/lp|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq

> cupsys-client

lpoptions from cupsys-client perhaps?

- Ron


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