Re: configuring printers in lenny.... is foomatic gui not working....?
Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear folks,
I just tried to configure my Epson D88 printer in Lenny, In Etch this was pretty easy.
In Lenny I found the printer icon under system tools and it seemed as though it was about start the foomatic gui and then it silently died without an error message or anything being posted up in the gnome display area.
I tried again a few times and it kept on doing it.
Is foomatic unwell in Lenny at the moment?
If so how should I configure the printer? Could I use gutenprint or do I need foomatic as well to do it?
Comments appreciated
Michael Fothergill
I also use an Epson printer on testing/lenny with foomatic and ijsgutenprint.
For the upgrade from gs-gpl to ghostscript version 8.62.dfsg.1-2, I had to switch
to the unstable versions of the packages foomatic-filters, ijsgutenprint, and
libgutenprint2.
But it should also be possible to stay with gs-gpl and foomatic-filters,
ijsgutenprint, and libgutenprint2 from lenny.
To generate the ppd-file (a part of the configuration) for my printer I additionally
needed the packages foomatic-db-engine and foomatic-db-gutenprint (and its
dependencies).
By the way, I use lprng for printing with a "hand-crafted" printcap file.
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.
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