Re: slack 10; hp 3845; cups; unable to print from command line

From: Richard Corden (richard_corden_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/29/05


Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:42:46 +0000

Chris wrote:
> Thanks Richard, that worked just grand, but it seems so simple, where did I
> miss this?

It is possibly documented somewhere on the slackware CD, but I too only
found it by trial and error after I had the same problem you did!

Richard

>
> Richard Corden wrote:
>
>
>>I believe this could just be a symbolic link issue. I think that slack
>>installs two versions of all the lp commands. It then creates symbolic
>>links to one of the versions.
>>
>>You should have at least:
>>
>>lp-cups
>>lpq-cups
>>lpr-cups
>>lprm-cups
>>lpstat-cups
>
> <snip snip>
>
>>So just swap symbolic links point to the cups versions:
>>
>>lp -> lp-cups
>>lpq -> lpq-cups
>>etc.
>>etc.
>>
>>Richard
>>
>
>

-- 
Richard Corden


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