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Thanks Robert - I have been wondering for weeks why adobe et al did not print.<BR>
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The FYI is genuinely appreciated.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
m<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:02 +0200, "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">while seeting up grml (HD-install) as my new working environmnet, I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">wanted to print on my CUPS printer server via cups-client from my grml</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">running notebook:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Printing via "old" (BSD style) commands</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">lpr $somefile</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">always returns something like:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">"jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." and no page was printing :(</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Because "lpstat -o -p -d" shows all available printer queues, I was</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">perplexed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">After playing around a bit I noticed that</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># aptitude show lpr</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "lpr"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Package: lpr</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">State: installed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is the problem. When printing via CUPS you need the wrapper package</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">"cupsys-bsd" instead of "lpr" to be installed - otherwise all print jobs</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">are handled by old BSD style lpr queue :/</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is _not_ really a grml bug, but maybe coexistent installing both of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">these packages should be thought over.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Maybe this report helps other folks with same troubles</FONT>
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