Re: CUPS

[Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@earthlink.net>]

At 11:34 AM 2/23/2012, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 10:46:03 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > As I understand, the newest version of CUPS is buggy.  I cannot print
> > from my Okidata 10ex.  What can I do?
>
> This bugginess - is it a reference to the two reported Severity: grave
> bugs? If you could print before (you don't say) there may be a
> connection but what you could do is download packages from testing and
> install with 'dpkg -i'.
Brian -

1] Here is the error log:

rosenberg:/var/log/cups# cat error_log
E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "hpgltops" not found.
E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "pstoraster" not found.
E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "oopstops" not found.
W [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] failed to CreateProfile: 
org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 
'OkiPage-Gray..' already exists
W [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] failed to CreateDevice: 
org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-OkiPage' 
already exists
rosenberg:/var/log/cups#


2] How do I download from testing?  I am running sid.

Ethan