On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 05:58:02PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > I am running testing. Today, just after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade to > get whatever is latest and greatest, I tried to print from Mozilla, > which failed while tryign to access Xprt. > > A little investigation showed that I now have a startup script called > xprint in /etc/init.d and I seem (now) to be running an Xprint server of > sorts. I've never needed that before, becuase I am running Cups, and > just having Mozilla print to my postscript/default printer works fine. > THe problem is that since I cannot figure out how to set a default > printer for Mozilla, and the print dialog seems to want the xprint > server to be the default, things no longer work smoothly. Not sure about this, sorry. > Since I am runnign Cups without any problems, is there any reason why I > need to have xprint? From reading the package descriptions for xprt-xprintorg and xprt, it seems that Mozilla requires it to print properly. > Can I just stop it and remove the startup script, > or even better apt-get remove it? Will Mozilla magically fix itself if I > do that, or am I borked? Try and see, I guess. If Mozilla requires it to print properly, though, you should file a bug on mozilla-browser requesting that it Suggest or Depend on xprt-xprintorg, since those fields should list everything a package needs to work properly. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Semtex Blowpipe codes Cocaine Leitrim illuminati Leuken-Baden
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