Installing Cups on HP-UX

Important Note: Installing CUPS on HP-UX will overwrite important files. I was not aware that swremove did not restore the previous binaries. Make sure you make a backup of the lp basic back-end or are able to re-install the package from the install medium. I do not have access to an HP-UX machine and cannot help anyone with more than what is written here.

Guide to installing Cups on HP-UX
(copied here for future reference, and for anyone on the net who needs this information)
Taken from several sources on the net, with the official one being:
http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#BUILDING_INSTALLING

CUPS is supposed to be the "Common Unix printing system". It compiled on all the Unix platforms I ever worked on, although sometimes I thing it should be renamed CLiPS ("Common Linux printing system")

Important note: the guide does not include the Foomatic-rip filters and is therefore very limited in functionalities. To install the Foomatic filters once you have completed this guide see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foomatic and http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/Foomatic

1)The Basics
We'll build from source, so you need to have the latest compiler and makefile Gnu tools. (at minimum GNU make is required) You can get those from:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/make-3.81/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gcc-4.1.2/
And the run-time dependencies (for GCC):
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gettext-0.16.1/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.11/

You also need some libraries from for Jpeg, tiff, png and zlib support (theses are used at CUPS compile time)
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/jpeg-6b/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/tiff-3.8.2/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Graphics/libpng-1.2.16/
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.2.3/

once copied, install using (do this for each file):

swinstall -s /tmp/filename-version-0.1.depot \*

you might want to copy all the software into a depot, and install from there:

swcopy -s /tmp/filename-version-0.1.depot \* @ hostA:/tmp/sw
swinstall -s hostA:/tmp/sw


2)EPM
You'll want to make packages for the HP software depot(or maybe another package in case you to install it on something else). We'll use EPM, the package-builder from ESP, the company behind Cups.

EPM support the following packages type (from the makefile):
aix, bsd, deb, gui, inst tardist, pkg, native, osx, portable, rpm, swintall depot
And the website says it support the following OS:
AIX, Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Solaris, and Tru64 UNIX.
http://www.easysw.com/epm/
Download the source from:
http://www.easysw.com/epm/software.php
and copy to /tmp
Extract using:
gunzip epm-4.0-source.tar.gz
tar -xvf epm-4.0-source.tar

Compile:
cd /tmp/epm-4.0
./compile
gmake swinstall depot

This will make a .depot file in the hpux-version directory. Install this software using

gunzip /tmp/epm-4.0/hpux-11.11-hppa/epm-4.0-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot.gz
swinstall -s /tmp/epm-4.0/hpux-11.11-hppa/epm-4.0-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot \*

Again, you might want to copy it first:
gunzip /tmp/epm-4.0/hpux-11.11-hppa/epm-4.0-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot.gz
swcopy -s /tmp/epm-4.0/hpux-11.11-hppa/epm-4.0-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot \* @ hostA:/tmp/sw
swinstall -s hostA:/tmp/sw

3)CUPS
Get cups
http://www.easysw.com/cups/software.php

and copy to /tmp
Extract using:
gunzip cups-1.2.8.tar.gz
tar -xvf cups-1.2.8.tar

Compile
cd /tmp/cups-1.2.8
./configure
gmake depot

If it does find the Jpeg, Zlib, Tiff or Png Librairies, see:
http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#BUILDING_INSTALLING

Install
gunzip /tmp/cups-1.2.8/dist/cups-1.2.8-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot.gz
swinstall -s /tmp/cups-1.2.8/dist/cups-1.2.8-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot \*

or
gunzip /tmp/cups-1.2.8/dist/cups-1.2.8-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot.gz
swcopy -s /tmp/cups-1.2.8/dist/cups-1.2.8-hpux-11.11-hppa.depot \* @ hostA:/tmp/sw
swinstall -s hostA:/tmp/sw

Congratulation, you have a basic (almost nothing included) working Cups!

4)Finishing touch
Configuration files are in:
/etc/cups
Logs are in
/var/log/cups

To add a printer:
lpadmin -p printer -E -v device -m ppd_file
To add a printer using the old system V interface files:
lpadmin -i/path_to_file/file