cups-genppdupdate - update CUPS+Gutenprint PPD files

cups-genppdupdate [-h] [-n] [-q | -v] [-s ppd-directory]

cups-genppdupdate regenerates the Gutenprint PPD files in use by CUPS, using the PPD files under /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint as templates. The new PPD file replaces the old PPD file under /etc/cups/ppd, but all the options set in the old PPD will be merged into the new PPD, provided that they are still valid in the new file.

cups-genppdupdate does not restart cupsd. cupsd will need manually reloading (or send SIGHUP) once cups-genppdupdate has completed.

-h

Show a help message.

-n

No action. The program will run, but the old PPD files will not be replaced.

-q

Quiet mode. No messages will be issued, apart from errors.

-v

Verbose mode. More informative messages will be issued. Note that extremely verbose output may be turned on by setting $debug=1 in the source, but this output will not be of use to the average user.

-s ppd-directory

Use ppd-directory as the base directory to read PPD files from. By default, the base directory is /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint. Under this directory, the PPD files are located in subdirectories according to language code and territory.

cups-genppd(8), cups-genppdconfig(8), CUPS Software Administrators Manual, http://localhost:631/documentation.html

Copyright © 2002-2003 Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This manual page was written by Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org).