Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:53:14 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Printer Installation Message-ID: <20080711205314.GB955@remdogbsd>
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> > 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. > > > > 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. I just discoverd the two separate sets of binaries. I simply changed the path in my .bashrc file so that /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin and that solved the problem. Thank you for your reply. Rem
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