Re: Can't print in KDE

[Paul Winkler <pwink@attglobal.net>]

On Friday 10 August 2001 09:04 pm, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
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> On Saturday 11 August 2001 02:07 am, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > After upgrading to debian unstable (KDE 2.2 beta1) I can not print from
> > any KDE application, but I can print from the command line or from non
> > KDE applications, using the lpr command.
> >
> > The error I receive when printing from KDE is -
> >
> >                   /usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp|hpdj|HP DeskJet'  '-#1'
> >                   /root/.kde/tmp-debian/kdeprint_YoHJqgH:
> >                   execution failed with message:
> >                    usage:lpr [-Pprinter] .....
> >
> > Any suggestions as to where I can start looking will be appreciated.
>
> Change name of printer to hpdj.
>
> That is a major bug. I've met it too and already reported it against
> kdebase.
>
> Regards,
>

I was not able to fix the problem by changing the name of the printer, but I 
did find bug report 29891, and found by replacing the lpr package with the 
lprng package I could print again!  Thanks for your help.

Paul Winkler