Re: Printing Problem

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "KW" == Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu> writes:

>> What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng
>> To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr

KW> So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version
KW> of lpr?

I think it is rather another printdaemon. But ng is "New Generation"
IIRC, so...

KW> When I tried the above command as a normal user, I got the following:
KW> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
KW> dpkg: `start-stop-deamon' not found on PATH.
KW> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
KW> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
KW> dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
KW> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
KW> /sbin.

The correct option to dpkg is -l, not -i
So try dpkg -l "lpr*"

Ciao,
	Martin