Re: Printing

From: graham (graham.marsden1_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 05/16/04


Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:21:57 +0100

On Sat, 15 May 2004 17:46:31 +1000, JPB wrote:

> OK; I am about to give up and am calling the kind people of this
> newsgroup to help!
>
> I've been trying in vain to configure my Epson printer to run with SuSE
> 9.1. It is a model that's normally fully supported in Linux and, in
> fact, it worked perfectly, with no input from me, on version 9.0.
>
> from kprint, I get a "CUPS server not running or not installed" message.
>
> I have even tried to delete all the CUPS packages and manually install
> the ones from my SuSE 9.0 CDs. The shell output is rather frightening:

(selective snips)
Here my epson printer works fine. Yast told me it was setting up
gimp-print as standard and asked if this was ok.Yes i replied and
everthing went fine. So I suggest you uninstall cups and try yast again.



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