filters on x86_64 systems

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Oct 11 11:28:58 PDT 2004


asvetter at cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote:
> There is a small problem with cups-1.1.20 on x86_64 systems: If you
> have a 64bit CUPS, it searches for filters only in 
> /usr/lib64/cups/filter. It does ignore filters in
> /usr/lib/cups/filter. Some filters are only available as
> 32bit-binary, e.g. rastertosharp by Mike Sweet. It would be great, if
> CUPS could look in lib64 first and then in lib. Is that possible?

Not at present.  The recommended way to determine the correct filter
directory is to use "cups-config --serverbin" and append "/filter"
to the end.  Probably you are trying to use binaries that were not
built for x86_64.

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