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NAME

6       cups-genppdupdate - update CUPS+Gutenprint PPD files
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SYNOPSIS

9       cups-genppdupdate  [-h] [-n] [-N] [-q | -v] [-s ppd-directory] [-s out‐
10       put-directory] [PPD-FILES or QUEUES...]
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DESCRIPTION

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
27       reloading (or send SIGHUP) once cups-genppdupdate has completed.
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OPTIONS

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
38              that extremely verbose  output  may  be  turned  on  by  setting
39              $debug=1  in  the  source, but this output will not be of use to
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42       -s ppd-directory
43              Use ppd-directory as the base directory to read PPD files  from.
44              By  default,  the base directory is /usr/share/cups/model/guten‐
45              print.  Under this directory, the PPD files are located in  sub‐
46              directories according to language code and territory.
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48       -o output-directory
49              Place  updated  PPD files in output-directory.  By default, this
50              is the same as the input directory.
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52       -N     Reset all options to their defaults (do not merge  options  from
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SEE ALSO

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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