How to install printer driver from RPM on Ubuntu?

[Pongo Pan]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:15 -0700, Charlie Zender wrote:
> Thank you for the rmp2cpio command, now:
> 
> > and then just copy ppd file to cups ppd directory
> 
> which is where, exactly?
> 
> zender at neige:/usr/share/cups$ ls
> banners        charmaps  data      drv       fonts   mime  profiles
> calibrate.ppm  charsets  doc-root  examples  locale  ppdc  templates
> zender at neige:/usr/share/cups$ find . -name '*.ppd'
> zender at neige:/usr/share/cups$
> 

It looks as if I have /etc/cups/ppd, containing nothing but the ppds for
the printers I've enabled on natty....

Maybe you could just create the sub-dir.

pongo at seneca:/etc/cups$ ls -al
total 76
drwxr-xr-x   4 root lp    4096 2011-04-15 14:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 148 root root 12288 2011-04-15 14:12 ..
-rw-r-----   1 root lp     108 2011-04-15 14:32 classes.conf
-rw-------   1 root lp     108 2011-02-25 09:43 classes.conf.O
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  4180 2011-02-19 14:07 cupsd.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  4300 2011-02-19 14:07 cupsd.conf.default
drwxr-xr-x   2 root lp    4096 2011-04-15 14:32 ppd  <-----dir for ppds!
-rw-------   1 root lp    2058 2011-04-15 14:32 printers.conf
-rw-------   1 root lp    1590 2011-04-15 14:31 printers.conf.O
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   240 2010-10-07 09:14 raw.convs
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   211 2010-10-07 09:14 raw.types
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   186 2010-10-01 02:57 snmp.conf
drwx------   2 root lp    4096 2010-10-07 09:14 ssl
-rw-r-----   1 root lp     385 2011-04-15 14:38 subscriptions.conf
-rw-r-----   1 root lp      90 2011-04-15 14:32 subscriptions.conf.O


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