cups-client does not create /etc/cups directory, let alone client.conf

[Daniel Richard G.]

Binary package hint: cups-client

This concerns cups-client 1.4.2-10 in Lucid beta1.

When you install the cups-client package, there is no sign whatsoever of the all-important /etc/cups/client.conf file; even the /etc/cups directory is not present.

The package should install a client.conf file, with helpful comments therein, as is customary for other client-type programs (e.g. dumb MTAs). This is particularly relevant for sites that use a central CUPS server (i.e. the "cups" package is not locally installed).

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Daniel,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with cups and printing. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know, and in the current version, run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

Bug persists in Ubuntu 18.04/bionic:

# ls /etc/cups
ls: cannot access '/etc/cups': No such file or directory

# apt-get install cups-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  cups-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
  libcups2 libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libjbig0 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8
  libtiff5
Suggested packages:
  cups xpp cups-bsd smbclient
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cups-client cups-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data
  libavahi-common3 libcups2 libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libjbig0
  libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 libtiff5
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,043 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,575 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
[...]
Setting up libcupsfilters1:amd64 (1.20.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libcupsimage2:amd64 (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up cups-client (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Adding group `lpadmin' (GID 111) ...
Done.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

# ls /etc/cups
ls: cannot access '/etc/cups': No such file or directory

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Daniel. Thanks for the update and the cups info. I'll look at next steps.
Take care
:)
G