Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
CaT <cat@zip.com.au>:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> > This is on Etch with "Desktop Environment" de-selected on install (no
> > Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
> > before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be
> > no web browser it could be configured with? Or can you [configure] CUPS
> > with w3m? :-P
>
> You can configure CUPS not just with w3m but also with vim. :)
Sorry to hear that.
> > aptitude -R install foomatic-filters-ppds
>
> And what does apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds get you?
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(0) heretic /home/keeling_ dpkg -L foomatic-filters-ppds | wc -l
2696
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So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files which
have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all gzipped ...
> > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> ...
> > Considering all the confusion and myriad pleas from people trying to
> > get CUPS working on their systems, should we really be going down this
> > road? CUPS has made a mess of printer configuration.
>
> It has? WFM. First go too.
Good for you, I'm glad for you; and irrelevant. Yes, CUPS works.
What if you don't want to use CUPS? Have you not seen all the posts
from noobs pleading for help with CUPS configs? I'm supporting a
person who's using CUPS. Going to the CUPS localhost:631 port gets us
a username & password prompt, and even root password is refused (*buntu).
BTW, see my .sig, please.
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