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Installing Printer Drivers on Linux Computers (CUPS)
This section provides information for installing or setting up the printer driver with CUPS (Common UNIX Printing
System) on Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
6 (32/64bit) Desktop or SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32/64bit),
or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32/64bit).
Operation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop
Setup Overview
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop:
1
Install the printer driver.
2
Set up the print queue.
3
Specify the default queue.
4
Specify the printing options.
Installing the Printer Driver
1
Select
Applications
System Tools
Terminal
.
2
Type the following command in the terminal window.
For the 32-bit architecture
For the 64-bit architecture
The printer driver is installed.
Setting Up the Queue
To execute printing, you must set up the print queue on your workstation.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Desktop:
1
Open the URL
"http://localhost:631"
using a web browser.
2
Click
Administration
.
3
Click
Add Printer
.
4
Ty pe
root
as the user name, type the administrator password, and click
OK
.
su
(Type the administrator password)
rpm -ivh (Type the file path)/Dell-Printer-
S2810dn-*.*-*.i686.rpm
su
(Type the administrator password)
rpm –ivh (Type the file path)/Dell-Printer-
S2810dn-*.*-*.x86_64.rpm