Bug#251888: Workaround for 'cannot add printers in spadmin' bug

[Oliver Bausinger <bausi@bausi.org>]

On Wednesday, 30. June 2004 14:00, Chris Halls wrote:

> So how do you add a queue for a program like kprinter?  Choose 'Connect
> a PDF converter' instead of 'Add a printer', and enter kprinter as the
> command line.  I confirmed that this works in the Debian packages too.

Indeed that's a possibility. But you cannot choose a PDF converter as a 
default printer (didn't work for me).
The other possibility is the following:
Set CUPS_SERVER to some invalid value, and the cups stuff will get 
deactivated. I have 

export CUPS_SERVER=dummy    in   /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf

and when you oopadmin with this, too, you can configure printers as usual.
Then configure the printer as "CUPS_SERVER=myserver kprinter"

A silly workaround, but at least, it works.