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Version	Filename	Size	MD5 Sum
1.4b1	cups-1.4b1-source.tar.bz2	4011k	ddb969a6c5db86f3524ec265cb06ed35
	cups-1.4b1-source.tar.gz	4539k	6a9f9593b5aaeef22f1530e288dda675
1.3.9	cups-1.3.9-source.tar.bz2	3901k	cf63f451c356e6cabb08972d4d11c365
	cups-1.3.9-source.tar.gz	4698k	e6f2d90491ed050e5ff2104b617b88ea
1.3.8	cups-1.3.8-source.tar.bz2	3886k	90ed7449948994ad1b22b0b177ab6ba6
	cups-1.3.8-source.tar.gz	4685k	10efe9825c1a1dcd325be47a6cc21faf
1.2.12	cups-1.2.12-source.tar.bz2	3700k	d410658468384b5ba5d04a808f6157fe
	cups-1.2.12-source.tar.gz	4318k	7d78f54c8588033f2b4a6c781ede1a28
1.1.23	cups-1.1.23-source.tar.bz2	8502k	4ce09b1dce09b6b9398af0daae9adf63
	cups-1.1.23-source.tar.gz	9836k	d6995f493129e9637581f3a717c8345e
1.0.5	cups-1.0.5-source.tar.gz	3075k	4c136b3e51ac2bf10dccc2d3b5064b6f
	cups-1.0.5-source.tar.bz2	2757k	ace09bd9e27161d16a675dd4148dab70
Windows Driver	cups-windows-6.0-1.i386.rpm	12k	dfff8dbad2a52b870b64a70ac4bd35f6
	cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.bz2	38k	e4569a58b6ad8bdef3208c4385c52625
	cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.gz	39k	0bca9beb6e84439623781168ab0987f3
Driver Development Kit	cupsddk-1.2.3.dmg	454k	265897e5b29b1ab0c5cf029b133beed5
	cupsddk-1.2.3-source.tar.bz2	2034k	3ec52813bf12bf9b34d34f8a81bab508
	cupsddk-1.2.3-source.tar.gz	2191k	4f8a1dc2369cee88e5b1293a19e1a3e6

Binaries

Free binaries are available elsewhere - search Google to find them.

Note:

We are no longer providing binaries for Mac OS X since CUPS 1.3.x is not fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.x. You can compile and install CUPS 1.3.x from source, however most of the GUI administration tools provided in Mac OS X 10.4.x will no longer work. CUPS 1.3 and higher should work without problems with Mac OS X 10.5.x.

Building RPMs

The source distributions include an RPM spec file that can be used to build RPM packages for your Linux distribution. The rpmbuild command is used to build from the tar files:

rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.gz

or:

rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.bz2

At a minimum, you'll need the gcc, libjpeg, libjpeg-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, libtiff, libtiff-devel, zlib, and zlib-devel packages installed to compile CUPS with all of the standard functionality. The krb5-devel, krb5-libs, openldap, openldap, openslp, openslp-devel, avahi, and avahi-devel packages will allow support for Kerberos (CUPS 1.3.x and later only), LDAP, SLP, and DNS-SD respectively.

The spec file supports two options, --without php and --without dbus, that control whether the PHP and DBUS support is compiled into the packages. For example, if you are compiling CUPS 1.2.4 or earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you will need to provide the --without dbus option since that distribution does not have a compatible version of the DBUS libraries available:

rpmbuild -ta cups-version-source.tar.gz --without dbus

Similarly, if you don't have the php-devel package installed, use the --without php option to omit the PHP support from the generated RPMs.

Subversion Access

The CUPS software is available via Subversion using the following URL:

    http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/

The following command can be used to checkout the current CUPS 1.3.x source from Subversion:

    svn co http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/branches/branch-1.3/ cups-1.3.x

The following command can be used to checkout the current CUPS 1.4.x source from Subversion:

    svn co http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk/ cups

After you check out the source, you will need to run the autoconf command to create the configure script. You can then follow the instructions in the INSTALL.txt file.

Using the Windows Driver

The CUPS driver for Windows downloads currently only support 32-bit Windows clients and must be combined with the Microsoft PostScript driver as described on the cupsaddsmb(8) man page.

Note:

Foomatic-based drivers do not work with Windows clients.

Using the Driver Development Kit

The CUPS Driver Development Kit (DDK) is bundled with CUPS 1.4 and higher. For CUPS 1.2.x and 1.3.x, download and install the DDK separately.

Note:

The DDK will not compile or install on systems with CUPS 1.0.x or 1.1.x. Do not compile or install the DDK on CUPS 1.4 or later.