Installation
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2a. Installation
Navigate to http://www.cups.org, click on Download next to the latest version, then choose the .tar.gz or .tgz file and save it on your computer. Once installed we perform the following steps (please note that you might have to change the version numbers if you downloaded a newer version).

Steps (see „Description" for definition):
1.tar xvzf cups-1.1.14-source.tar.gz  
2.cd cups-1.1.14  
3../configure  
4.make  
5.su – root  
6.make install (you need to be root to install the binaries)  
7./etc/init.d/cups start  

Description:
1.Extract the source  
2.No Comment  
3.Prepare the source for compilation (you might need to specify options here)  
4.Compile  
5.Switch user to root  
6.Install the binaries  
7.Start the CUPS daemon  

After that CUPS should be installed and running. Since CUPS uses the IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) we can verify this by opening up a browser and typing http://localhost:631/. You should then see something like this:

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which should make you quite happy. If not read on, there is more too see. Now click on Manage Printers to add a printer to CUPS. You will see an empty screen like this one:

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We will now click on Add Printer to actually add a printer to CUPS, the whole idea behind this procedure.