wrong pathes to foomatic-rip on x86-64

[George Liu]

> > CUPS references foomatic-rip as /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip.

In my Suse professional 10, the softlink to foomatic-rip in
/usr/lib64/cups/filter points to /usr/bin/Foomatic-rip

George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Liu [mailto:george.liu at ussj.ricoh.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:16 AM
> To: kpfeifle at danka.de; For users and developers of KDEPrint, the KDE
> printing architecture
> Cc: Michael Sweet
> Subject: RE: wrong pathes to foomatic-rip on x86-64
> 
> I have SUSE 10 running on a AMD 64 bit machine.
> Yes, Foomatic-rip is installed in /usr/bin, and softlink in
> /usr/lib64/cups/filter.
> 
> But I didn't see any problem for cups to invoke Foomatic-rip. (The PPD
> file didn't specify path for Foomatic-rip either)
> I used all default installation of SUSE 10 (with KDE) and I didn't
copy
> Foomatic-rip or change path or anything. It worked out of the box.
> 
> George
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kurt Pfeifle [mailto:k1pfeifle at gmx.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:38 PM
> > To: kde-print at kde.org
> > Cc: Michael Sweet
> > Subject: Re: wrong pathes to foomatic-rip on x86-64
> >
> > On Tuesday 25 April 2006 22:20, Alexander Kern wrote:
> > > Here on SuSE 10.0 foomatic-filters has foomatic-rip in /usr/bin
and
> as
> > > softlink in /usr/lib64/cups/filter/foomatic-rip. CUPS references
> > foomatic-rip
> > > as /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip.
> >
> > Be aware that foomatic-rip is a third-party add-on to CUPS (by
> > Linuxprinting.org), still there for legacy reasons. CUPS itself
> > is foomatic-rip agnostic...
> >
> > CUPS can use all executables found in /usr/lib/cups/{filter,backend}
> > if they behave as filters, and if mime.{types,convs} or if the the
> > print queue's PPD/device-URI reference their names.
> >
> > It must heve been the SUSE installer/RPM/YaST which put it into
> > /usr/bin and which put the symlink at the "wrong" place.
> >
> > > Clearly it does found it. After I make
> > > a copy from /usr/lib64/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
> > > to /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kurt
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