Installing Epson Stylus C86

Goffioul Michael goffioul at imec.be
Mon May 29 09:37:12 CEST 2006


> Trying to install Epson Stylus C86 in kde-print (in 
> Administrator mode) I get the following error:
> 
> Unable to load the requested driver:
> Unable to create the Foomatic driver 
> [Epson-Stylus_C86,gimp-print]. Either that driver does not 
> exist, or you don't have the required permissions to perform 
> that operation.
> 
> Is this a problem with kde-print og is it a problem with my 
> Ubuntu 5.10 setup?

Foomatic used to require admin access to generate PPD files on
the fly (at least this was the case when I wrote that code). However,
the best is to try to run the foomatic command manually in a terminal
and look for error messages.

Michael.


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