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Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
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>From: "Eric Pretorious" <epretorious@hotmail.com>
>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:46:38 -0700
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>>From: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
>>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:35:04 -0400
>>
>>I suspect you need to use "gmake" (the GNU make) instead of "make",
>>which is the BSD make.
>
>Bingo!!!

I just can't win for losing where BSD is concerened:

gateway# whoami
root
gateway# foomatic-configure -s cups -n DeskJet_682C -c file:/dev/lpt0 -p 
HP-DeskJet_682C -d hpijs -o PageSize=A4
Cannot write /etc/cups/ppd/DeskJet_682C.ppd!
gateway# ls -al /etc/cups
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Sep 16 12:13 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel  2048 Sep 16 11:51 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     0 Sep 16 12:13 printers.conf
gateway# mkdir /etc/cups/ppd
gateway# foomatic-configure -s cups -n DeskJet_682C -c file:/dev/lpt0 -p 
HP-DeskJet_682C -d hpijs -o PageSize=A4
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3427.
/usr/sbin/lpadmin: not found
Could not set up/change the queue "DeskJet_682C"!

What do I have to do to install/use HPIJS without devoting my life to 
becoming a FreeBSD+CUPS expert?! (Setting up CUPS+foomatic+HPIJS was a 
breeze under Gentoo!)

Eric P.
Sunnyvale, CA

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