Newbie Just Tryin' to Print from KDE

C. K. Lester kde-print@mail.kde.org
Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:06:04 -0600


On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:46 pm, Chris Howells wrote:
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> > I thought I had CUPS installed. When I type "cupsd" as root from / it
> > gives no message. When I "ps -a" afterwards, I don't see anything abo=
ut
> > CUPS. I'm running the latest stable KDE.
>
> Have you installed Cups from packages or ports?

It was installed from ports.

> If you head to
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d, you should see a script to start cups. If it's cal=
led
> cups.sh.sample or similair, move it to cups.sh. You can now start cups =
by
> doing:

Did that...

> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start

That gives me an error (unknown command), so I start it with just "cupsd.=
"

When I try to print a test page (from the localhost config page), I get t=
his:

=09"Unable to connect to IPP host: Undefined error: 0"=20