On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:03:18PM +0100, AG wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 18:04:47 +0100, AG wrote: >> >>> Hi list >>> >>> Can someone point me in the right direction of a fix/workaround for >>> this apparent bug please. >>> >>> Nothing prints at present and the webadmin page displays: "Unable to >>> start filter "pdftoraster" - Success." >>> >>> The only result using Google I can find is: >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/584860 >>> which doesn't bode well as I too am running an AMD64 using Squeeze. >>> >>> Restarting the printer and attempting a test page fails quietly. >>> >> >> The relevant file, /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster, is part of >> ghostscript-cups. Is this package installed on your system? >> >> > Florian > > Apparently not: > > $ whereis pdftoraster > pdftoraster: > > And nothing with a manual ls, either. > > There is no installation candidate for pdftoraster AFAICT from apt-cache > search the file pdftoraster is contained in the ghostscript-cups package. You should install that package, though from my reading of the bug, that won't necessarily completely solve the problem. > > Isn't that the bug though - a call for a file that doesn't exist or am I > misreading that bug description? yes and no. from the official bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534799 the file pdftoraster has moved to the ghostscript-cups package, but cups doesn't pull in that package. There are probably further problems with printing, but at a minimum, you need that package. A
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