[nflug] Print Spooling Problem in ubuntu

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Thu Nov 16 14:31:57 EST 2006


Cyber Source wrote:
>> Just got this from cups forum:
>>
>> The problem here is that you're getting the LPRng versions of lp and
>> lpstat instead of the CUPS ones, and no, they won't work too well
>> together on the same machine.  You could try disabling LPRng's lpd
>> and adding cups-lpd to {,x}inetd.conf, but I wouldn't want to trust
>> such a configuration.
>>
>> Joe
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> Just so you know, I have none of the lp packages installed, only cups,
> and I can print with command line lp no problem. Check out my installed
> packages;
> peter at Office:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep lp | grep cups
> peter at Office:~$ sudo dpkg -l | grep cups
> ii  bluez-cups                             2.24-0ubuntu6   Bluetooth
> printer driver for CUPS
> ii  cupsys                                 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06   Common
> UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
> ii  cupsys-bsd                             1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06   Common
> UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
> ii  cupsys-client                          1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06   Common
> UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
> ii  cupsys-driver-gutenprint               5.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu6   printer
> drivers for CUPS
> ii  gnome-cups-manager                     0.31-1.1ubuntu13   CUPS
> printer admin tool for GNOME
> ii  libcupsimage2                          1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06   Common
> UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs
> ii  libcupsys2                             1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06   Common
> UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
> ii  libcupsys2-dev                         1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06   Common
> UNIX Printing System(tm) - developmen
> ii  libgnomecups1.0-1                      0.2.2-1ubuntu5.1   GNOME
> library for CUPS interaction
> ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a                 0.31-1.1ubuntu13   UI
> extensions to libgnomecups
>
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But you do have the cupsys-bsd package installed which is what makes it 
work (I'm told).  I'm going back on the Linux side to see if I have it 
installed and I'll remove lprng and install it.

Joe
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