Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:45:43 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>, Jason Lenthe <lenthe@comcast.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...?? Message-ID: <20090114174543.GA97086@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090114144410.6ddf9401.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090112162216.GA6391@aurora.oekb.co.at> <496BE775.6010805@comcast.net> <20090114144410.6ddf9401.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:33 -0500, Jason Lenthe <lenthe@comcast.net> wrote:
> > The problem [with CUPS] was that certain other software (gtk+ and gnome as I recall)
> > expected /usr/bin/lpr to be the CUPS lpr (the CUPS port normally
> > installs lpr to /usr/local/bin). It was also necessary for some
> > applications to have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in your path for
> > certain applications to work. My memory is vague regarding the details,
> > though.
When installing cups, I always tell it to overwrite the base tools. I've
got the following in /etc/make.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/print/cups*}
CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true
.endif
Accompanied by the following setting in /etc/src.conf:
WITHOUT_LPR=true
This will prevent two different versions of the lp* tools being installed.
> One downside I noticed since I was forced to upgrade my home system
> was that some programs seem to expect (!) the presence of CUPS on
> a system in order to print, which they didn't do in earlier versions.
> Yes, I'm talking to you, Gimp! :-) When trying to print something
> from the Gimp (I think it's called "Gutenprint"), the message
>
> /usr/local/bin/lpstat: Unable to connect to server
>
> is output to the controlling terminal. It seems that it's not
> enough that Gimp runs slower with every version update... :-(
The upside is that gutenprint and cups changing all available printer
settings.
Roland
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