Dapper cups admin mode

[Liz Young]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 07:58, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I just upgraded my daughter's box to Dapper. I now am trying to
> install a new printer via the cups system - localhost:631
> Does authentication for admin mode need to be done by root? If so how
> should I go about it?

No.  It should work through KDE printer manager.

> I did try the KDE printer manager but it said that there was a
> permission error when I tried to install the drivers (using the
> wizard in admin mode after I gave my password).

Try running "sudo foomatic-cleanupdrivers" in konsole for that 
permission error (worked here).

> BTW. What is the difference between the 'cups' drivers and 'foomatic'
> ones?

Foomatic is the database driver.  I read about it here:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-about.html