Re: Printing Problem
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote:
> >
> > What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng
> > To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr
> >
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Ulisses
>
> This question is from Kent, not Shao.
>
> So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version
> of lpr?
In short: Yes, and is "backwards compatible"
> When I tried the above command as a normal user, I got the following:
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `start-stop-deamon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
> /sbin.
>
> So I figured the problem was that I wasn't logged in as root. So I su'd,
> and tried the command again. This time I got:
>
> dpkg: --install needs at least one package archive file argument
>
> and then some help information. I double-checked the command and I had
> the syntax the way you specified. Do I have something wrong with my
> setup?
No, it was a mistake: it's "dpkg -l" instead of "dpkg -i"
regards,
Ulisses
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