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Date:      Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:29:22 -0400
From:      "rance@frontiernet.net" <rance@frontiernet.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS?
Message-ID:  <20050919222922.p1vmio0okogg48c8@webmail.frontiernet.net>
In-Reply-To: <54db439905091723305c2835a8@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>:

> On 9/16/05, Eric Pretorious <epretorious@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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!)
>
> I find that apsfilter is a lot easier to install and configure than
> is
> CUPS, and it appears that the HPIJS driver got installed on my system
> when I installed apsfilter.  I don't use CUPS unless I really need
> the
> Internet Printing Protocol.
>
> - Bob

Eric:

I had the same problem when I moved from gentoo to freebsd, (which is
only about two weeks ahead of you considering that is why I joined this
list in the first place.

im not sure if you are working from ports or not, but I chose to do
prebuilt packages, just to get the system going

I did a pkg_add -r ghostscript-gnu (not sure if this is required or not.
then I did a pkg_add -r cups
then pkg_add -r foomatic-db
pkg_add -r foomatic-db-engine
pkg_add -f foomatic-filters

(please note I couldnt find a "meta" package that installs everything)

then I did a pkg_add -r hpijs

and that was all I needed to get cups running with my hp laserjet 1100
printer.

Rance




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