Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:45:15 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: remegius@comcast.net Subject: Re: Printer Installation Message-ID: <4877C65B.2060702@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080711194558.GA2442@remdogbsd> References: <20080711194558.GA2442@remdogbsd>
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Written by Rem P Roberti on 07/11/08 14:45>> > This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge > about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was > installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine > when printing from X apps, but I am unable to print from the command > line. My main concern is to be able to print from Mutt, but when I try > to do that I get an error message from Mutt telling me,"lpr: lp: unknown > printer." I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction here. > > Rem > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The FreeBSD base system comes with lpr/lpd, so you have an lpr binary at /usr/bin/lpr. Cups installs its lpr to /usr/local/bin/lpr. You can move your /usr/bin/lp* binaries aside and replace them with symbolic links to the cups binaries in /usr/local/bin if you wish, or if you have a way to tell mutt which lpr binary to use you can do that.
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