Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > s. keeling wrote:
> > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
> > > ...
> > > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
> > > lprng
> >
> > toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
>
> Thank you. At least someone figured out that there was a reason why one
> might want to try apt-get instead. Aptitude, imo, tries too hard to err
> on the side of the completely clueless user.
Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as
required?
I only have a 26 year old dot-matrix printer; I use plain-old lpr.
On the box that still has a paralell port, I have a pretty full
text-mode environment plus minimal X (not all of xorg) and icewm. On
that box, aptitude search '~i~dcups' shows nothing.
On my main box, I currently have no print spooler. However, there is a
driver in the gs-esp package that will print postscript on my dot-matrix
printer. That gs does require libcupsys2 and libcupsimage2; between the
two that's 565k uncompressed size. Nothing else that I have installed
requires anything related to cups.
Doug.
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