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6 cups-genppdupdate - update CUPS+Gutenprint PPD files
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9 cups-genppdupdate [-h] [-n] [-N] [-q | -v] [-s ppd-directory] [-s out‐
10 put-directory] [PPD-FILES or QUEUES...]
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13 cups-genppdupdate regenerates the Gutenprint PPD files in use by CUPS,
14 using the PPD files under /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint as tem‐
15 plates. The new PPD file replaces the old PPD file under
16 /etc/cups/ppd, but all the options set in the old PPD will be merged
17 into the new PPD, provided that they are still valid in the new file.
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19 If no files or queue names are specified, cups-genppdupdate updates all
20 Gutenprint PPD files in /etc/cups/ppd. Otherwise, cups-genppdupdate
21 updates all files or queues listed on the command line.
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23 cups-genppdupdate does not update PPD files from Gimp-Print 4.2 or ear‐
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26 cups-genppdupdate does not restart cupsd. cupsd will need manually
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30 -h Show a help message.
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32 -n No action. The program will run, but the old PPD files will not
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35 -q Quiet mode. No messages will be issued, apart from errors.
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37 -v Verbose mode. More informative messages will be issued. Note
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42 -s ppd-directory
43 Use ppd-directory as the base directory to read PPD files from.
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45 print. Under this directory, the PPD files are located in sub‐
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48 -o output-directory
49 Place updated PPD files in output-directory. By default, this
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52 -N Reset all options to their defaults (do not merge options from
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56 cups-genppd(8), cups-genppdconfig(8), CUPS Software Administrators Man‐
57 ual, http://localhost:631/documentation.html
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60 Copyright © 2002-2006 Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org) and Robert
61 Krawitz (rlk@alum.mit.edu)
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63 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
64 under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as pub‐
65 lished by the Free Software Foundation.
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67 This manual page was written by Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org).
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