From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 02:29:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D23316A420 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:29:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rance@frontiernet.net) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF6643D48 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:29:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rance@frontiernet.net) Received: from filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.69]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7C2370343 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.69]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05495-03-97 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (webmail02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.101]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B667370300 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 170-215-28-151.bras01.kea.ne.frontiernet.net (170-215-28-151.bras01.kea.ne.frontiernet.net [170.215.28.151]) by webmail.frontiernet.net (Horde) with HTTP for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:29:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20050919222922.p1vmio0okogg48c8@webmail.frontiernet.net> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:29:22 -0400 From: "rance@frontiernet.net" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <54db439905091723305c2835a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db439905091723305c2835a8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.3.2 (20050629) at filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Subject: Re: CUPS, Foomatic, and HPIJS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:29:29 -0000 Quoting Bob Johnson : > On 9/16/05, Eric Pretorious 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