Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)
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On 07/07/08 09:14, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> Mumia M. wrote:
>>> I also created a startup script for firefox that sets
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the 'lib' directory where gtk+2.10's
>>> binaries are installed, e.g.:
>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> #---------firefox-3.0.sh-------------
>>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/exotic/lib
>>> exec /usr/local/firefox-3.0/firefox
>
>> Doesn't seem to help here. I don't have any "lib" directory in
>> gtk-2.10; just engines, immodules, printbackends, and loaders.
>
>> Perhaps I should have used an earlier version of gtk-2.10?
>
> The standard self-compiled install puts *lots* of stuff in
> /usr/local, e.g. in
>
> /usr/local/bin
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/local/share
> /usr/local/etc
>
> /usr/local/lib contains a subdirectory gtk-2.0 which has engines,
> immodules, printbackends, and loaders in it. But also
> /usr/local/lib ("above" gtk-2.10, not inside it) will contain new
> gtk things.
>
> BTW Mumia, it seems you use a (probably non-Debian) firefox
> (because you use Etch), which is also in /usr/local. I use Sid,
> and I can now print with the standard Debian Iceweasel.
>
> The difficult thing now is to pinpoint where the bug is, exactly.
> Ihe official Debian source files of libgtk2.0-0 are much bigger
> than the gtk+-2.10 ones on gtk.org (23 MB vs 14 MB). To compile
> the Debian version (which does not allow lpr printing through ff3)
> you need to install *lots* of extra packages:
> gnome-common
> intltool
> libcairo-directfb2
> libcups2-dev
> chrpath
> gtk-doc-tools
> libcairo-directfb2-dev
> libcupsys2-dev
> svn-buildpackage
> unp
> gnome-pkg-tools
> libsvn-perl
> svn-buildpackage
> It seems the package was heavily customised. Maybe some bias
> favouring CUPS was introduced. But ff2 worked fine, so I am still
> not certain where the blame really lies.
I'd say to file a bug against libgtk2.0-0 and see what response you get.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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