[LUNI] Long stange trip.

[Richard Reina]

It's been somewhat of a long strange trip.  It started
2 days ago w/ a simple command on a newly installed
FC3 box.

lpr -P lp at 192.168.0.4 document1

that returned:

lpr: error - unable to print file:
client-error-not-found

cups seemed to not want to let me print to a remote
printer on anoter linux machine accross the office.  I
had never seemed to have this problem when setting up
a RH7 or RH8 machine, but then again those distros did
try to force me to use cups.

I tried the alternatives --config print but this would
do me no good as LPRng was not installed.  

Which led me here:

Bugzilla Bug 128024 – cups obsoletes LPRng
unconditionally
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128024

It seems cups tries to nuke LPRng. I figure oh well it
won't be so bad this is a "slim" ( as I call it )
client on a private little linux network.  I won't be
running up2date.  In fact once I get it configured it
won't even see the net again.

Now let me pause to say that I am not trying to say
cups is bad or that LPRng is better -- although a
google search of "cups sucks" returns 75 matches while
"lprng sucks" only returns 15 -- heck once all 6 or 7
of my machines are upgraded I might switch to cups but
for now I simply need for perl code that has
system("lpr -P lp at 192.168.0.4 file") to work.

So I continue on to install LPRng. But then rpm -Uvh
LPRng-3.8.19-3.i386.rpm gave me all kinds of problems:

error: Failed dependencies:
        libcom_err.so.3 is needed by
LPRng-3.8.19-3.i386
        cups >= 1.1.17-4 is needed by (installed)
system-config-printer-0.6.116- 1.i386
        cups is needed by (installed)
hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8.i386
        cups is needed by (installed)
libgnomecups-0.1.12-5.i386
        cups is needed by (installed)
desktop-printing-0.17-3.i386

So I tried:

yum install LPRng

which quits with:

No Match for argument: LPRng
Nothing to do.

My next step -- which brings me to my question -- when
I get to my office tomorrow is to install apt-get (
yum install apt-get ) and then try to install LPRng
with apt-get.  

Does anyone know of a better way.

Thanks a bunch for listening.

Richard