19 Mar
2020
19 Mar
'20
6:06 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:28 PM Michael <mb_trinity_desktop(a)inet-design.com>
wrote:
Q1: Is there a way to not install CUPS during a standard install of TDE?
Why waste the space and CPU cycles...
Q2: Anyone have a recommendation for a CUPS replacement?
There’s nothing wrong with my 7 year old printer (which I now have to send
files to a windows box to print...).
You can't completely remove CUPS on a Linux distribution, because it's a
hard dependency for a lot of things. You can disable the Cups daemon from
starting though (e.g. systemctl disable cups.service). Depending on your
distribution, you may also be able to just have the cups libraries
installed for the dependency, and not actually have the cups printing
service (daemon) installed.
As for a Cups replacement, it's the standard and sometimes only printing
system available on a distribution. Other printing systems tend to plug
into Cups (e.g. gutenprint, foomatic). You'd be better off to look for
support for your printer model and go from there. I'm sorry, I don't know a
lot about printing on Linux.