hacking around with cups etc, now kprinter can't find cups
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Sep 10 19:50:43 CEST 2004
Greetings;
I don't think I'm subbed to this list, so please include me in
replies.
The cups-1.1.19 thats installed by default on an FC2 system has a
broken response that crashes any kde app that gets anywhere near a
printer.
I mean, open a menu, and just hover the mouse over a printer related
name in the menu, and 1 second later, boom, that piece of kde is gone
till you restart x, its replaced by a crash advisory window front and
center.
I upgrade installed the rpms for cups-1.1.21-rc2, and gimp-print-4.2.7
from scratch which works with gimp-2.0, (this was brought on by
defective translations in the redhat supplied gimp-print-4.2.7 rpms,
everything was (en) in the browser display when selecting the right
ppd's) so I can now print from the gimp, mozilla and any other
non-kde app I've since tried.
I've built kde-3.3 with konstruct, and even done several "cvs up
-dP's", killed the cookies in kde/kdelibs & done a make clean, and
rebuilt & re-installed from there, but the kprinter menu still
doesn't have the cups system as an output option. x(kde) has been
restarted several times also.
FWIW, when I had the cups-1.1.20 rpms installed, while konstruct was
busy makeing kde-3.3, and gimp-print-4.2.6pre3 from a tarball,
everything worked. Then along comes yum and replaces the gimp-1.2.6
with 2.0 and everything else got in a little red wagon and rolled
merrily off down a long downhill road to hell.
So what is it that I should do to make kde "re-survey" the system and
find the now replaced cups (etc) stuffs and put them back in the
kprinter menu?
Thanks
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