Info

This is a distrobox container that has CUPS preinstalled. This container doea not require root privleges for this to work.

Getting started

First create the container using distrobox

distrobox create -i ghcr.io/dnkmmr69420/archlinux-cups:latest -n cups --init -H ~/.local/share/cups-home -p

experimental command

distrobox create -i ghcr.io/dnkmmr69420/archlinux-cups:latest -n cups -H ~/.local/share/cups-home --init -p --unshare-netns -a "-p 1631:631"

Enter the container

distrobox enter cups

Update all packages. Paru is already preinstalled.

paru

Start some services

sudo systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon
sudo systemctl enable --now cups

Run this command in the terminal to start the gui

system-config-printer

Credits

base arch image: https://github.com/ublue-os/arch-distrobox