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Re: CUPS



On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:55:00AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> On Friday 19 March 2004 06:20, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:03:12PM -0800, Arron Kau wrote:
> >> I've gathered from doing some research on this that I am not the only
> >> one to have problems with CUPS. I actually have it installed and
> >> working (nominally). I can print from a shell terminal in KDE.
> >> However, I _cannot_ print from any of the other programs that I've
> >> tried (Openoffice, Evolution, Mozilla). The dialog that comes up with
> >> these
> > 
> > Mozilla uses lpr by default. To get printing to work you'd need to
> > install cupsys-bsd so that Mozilla can send an "lpr" command that gets
> > translated into something the printer will hear.
> > 
> > apt-get install cupsys-bsd
> 
> In my experience, just installing cupsys-bsd didn't make lpr work
> (output just disappeared).  

Me too.

> I had to install magicfilter and run
> magicfilterconfig.  Is that normal?

My solution was to use 'lp' instead.

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