Syntax for a Linux task, please. I am not familiar with the OS.

Did you get a chance to read over something like this?

It’s scary how other-worldly that question sounded to me

@robmandu I have no access to any GUI print app. This will have to be done in terminal mode.

@Fred931 It’s just jargon. It sounds mysterious, and it would take a long post to translate it, but essentially it’s a trivial issue.

Jolicloud is derived from Ubuntu, which means, for your purposes, that adding a printer should be relatively easy.

Unfortunately, without Jolicloud in front of me, it’s rather difficult to guide you – I don’t use it. Is the printer attached to a windows machine?

Jolicloud is deliberately crippled so as not to provide printer installation from the GUI. There is not a way to do it with Jolicloud, or it would be done. I need to use the command line interface. As I said in the original post, it is attached to a NAS, not a computer.

Would this help?

Yes, thank you! This is exactly the line I was looking for:

$ sudo apt-get install cups cups-client cups-bsd cups-driver-gutenprint foomatic-db-hpijs hal-cups-utils splix

Thanks so much for finding that. I’m going to go run that.

(Gotta love Fluther, don’t you?)

No problem. Been messing around with Jolicloud a bit myself recently. It’s not too bad.

It’s stupid that they crippled it just to get a quicker boot sequence.

And I still don’t think the boot sequence is that fast.

I found 9.04 to be quicker than 9.10 in terms of boot time (Jolicloud is an Ubuntu derivative).

Yeah, I picked it because it’s got a smaller footprint, as I use it on a netbook.