The basic components of the LPRng system are the executables and the
database files. This section deals with generating and
installing the executable files.
Obtain the latest or stable version of the LPRng source code from a LPRng FTP
Site.
Obtain the latest or stable version of the ifhp filter source code from a LPRng FTP
Site. This filter is used to support PostScript,
PCL, and text printers.
Obtain the following GNU programs from one of the
many GNU
Software Mirror Sites and install them. See the
directions in the GNU Zip distribution for details.
GNU gzip Compression
Utility
Used to generate the compressed LPRng distribution.
GNU tar Archive
Utility
GNUtar
supports gzip
compression and decompression and is used to
generate the LPRng
distribution.
GNU make
LPRng requires GNUmake for configuration
and installation.
GNU gcc Compiler or
ANSI C Compiler
LPRng requires and
ANSI C compiler. If you do not have an ANSI C
compiler then please use the GNUgcc compiler.
Solaris Sparc and X86 Binaries for GCC and Make can
be obtained from http://sunfreeware.com/.
While the following are not essential to LPRng they are used by the ifhp filter.
GhostScript can be obtained from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ or http://www.ghostscript.com.
GhostScript is a PostScript interpreter that
allows you to translate PostScript to various
printer compatible formats such as PCL, as well
as displaying the code on a terminal. You might
also want to get the PDF extensions that allows
GhostScript to read and print PDF files.