[PC-BSD Testing] can't print on Beta1.5
Dru Lavigne
dru.lavigne at att.net
Fri Sep 2 12:04:23 PDT 2011
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:33:45 +0200
> From: Sven Moeller <smoeller at nichthelfer.de>
> To: testing at lists.pcbsd.org
> Subject: [PC-BSD Testing] can't print on Beta1.5
> Message-ID: <201109012333.45443.smoeller at nichthelfer.de>
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>
> Hi,
>
> my Printer (Canon Pixma iP4000) seems to be configured
> properly. It shows up
> in both PC-BSD Systemsettings and KDE Systemsettings. But,
> i can just print
> from GTK applications like firefox (Firefox 4.x installed
> by PBI). It's not
> possible to print from any KDE application. I wanted to
> print a site from a
> PDF file using Okular. But the printer dialog window just
> gives me the option
> to print into a file. Either Postscript or PDF. Same
> behaivior with KMail and
> KWrite. Is this a known problem? How can i fix this
> (or trouble shoot
> better)?
>
> thx and regards
Does doing this fix the KDE printing issue?
mv /usr/bin/lpq /usr/bin/lpq.bak
mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak
mv /usr/bin/lprm /usr/bin/lprm.bak
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpq /usr/bin/lpq
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lprm /usr/bin/lprm
Cheers,
Dru
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