Why not just re-download the driver for 10.04 and try that out on 12.04 or 14.04? If it works, it works, if not, no big deal. If you have a spare harddrive to test with -- great. If not, you can likely test with a live USB stick -- I have done similar things in the past. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:17 AM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > Would this perhaps be somewhat of a starting point to obtain a currently > installed printer-driver on an Ubuntu 10.04 computer? The problem I am > having is that the 'Lexmark X5070' printer I have has no driver available > on the Lexmark website for Ubuntu 12.04. Someone suggested I may be able to > retain the current print driver and install it on Ubuntu 12.04. I know I > can read more but suggestions are welcome. > > Moving printer definitions from one machine to another > > Let us say that you have a print server with 30 defined printers. And you > have to move all those printers to another machine, because you want to > retire that server. Sounds difficult? Yes. But it isn't. > > At least if you have a CentOS 4 or CentOS 3 machine, the printconf command > vanished from CentOS 5. > > *Note:* For moving printer configs with CentOS 5 please see this page<http://cyberelk.net/tim/2007/05/04/what-happened-to-printconf-tui/>until it gets incorporated into the wiki. > > Here's how to do it > > Make yourself at home as root on the old server. > > Issue the following command: > > printconf-tui --Xexport > printers.xml > > Now copy the printers.xml to the new machine. > > Log on to this machine as root, also. > > Do the following: > > printconf-tui --Ximport < printers.xml > > Now the last thing you have to do is restart cups on the new machine - and > you're ready: > > service cups restart > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140327/53a34baa/attachment.html>