Chapter 2. Building and Installing CUPS

Today, most of the UNIX and Linux systems come with the CUPS printing system. CUPS is supported by Caldera, Debian, Conectiva, easyLinux, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux Mandrake, Peanut, Red Hat, Solaris, SusE, Tru64, UNIX, TurboLinux, and AIX. Of these, Conectiva, easyLinux, Linux Mandrake, and Peanut use CUPS as their primary printing system.

This chapter describes how to compile and install CUPS on your system from the source code.