Re: [Lpr-discuss] Potato apt repository for the HP release

[James A. <ja...@an...>]

Nick Moffitt <ni...@va...> writes:

> begin  Nick Moffitt quotation:
> > 	Please let me know how these work out.  I've installed them,
> > but have only run one or two simple apps.  n future, I will also set
> > up a task package to make  the install much easier.
> 
> 	Okay, this was also embarassingly easy.  You can now do
> "apt-get install task-gnulpr", and that should install all necessary
> packages, and ensure that new ones arrive when you do a dist-upgrade
> in future.

 Well this prompted me to run it on my debian box (the debian lpd I'm
using is pretty bad). These could be generic problems, but I don't
have much time to look into them (I need to fix my printer so it
actually works first :).

 I've checked a fix in on the 2.0 branch that is needed to run
under 2.4.x.

 Doing apt-get install task-gnulpr destroyed /etc/printcap (so much
for making a backup ... Ack).

 Also when printtool makes /var/spool/lpd/lp0 the filter symlink is
pointing to the wrong place "/usr/libexec" instead of
"/usr/lib/printfilters".
 Also when I try a test page from printtool it looks in...

 . (from after being chdir'd to my user ${HOME}).
 /bin
 /usr/bin
 /sbin
 /usr/sbin

...but it's only in /usr/lib/printfilters.

 After that it trys to print and I get this...

/usr/sbin/ps-to-printer.fpi: /grab-ppd.awk: No such file or directory
? Device hpdj: This instance of hpdj has been compiled without
  choosing a default printer model. You must therefore explicitly
  select a model by means of the 'Model' option. Consult the manual
  page gs-hpdj(1) for permissible values.

Unexpected interpreter error -15.
Error object: 

...in /tmp/evillog (mod 666 -- Ack). gs is...

% dpkg -l gs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  gs             5.10-10.1      Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib 

...anyway I'm off to bed now.

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