[cups.general] Telling CUPS where gs is?

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Tue Dec 7 07:17:37 PST 2004


Andrew McCall wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> I am having a problem with a non-postcript printer.  Whenever I print
> anything the jobs get cancelled straight away.  After turning debugging on I
> found that its because CUPS can't call gs:
> 
> E [07/Dec/2004:10:48:00 +0000] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format
> for job 38!
> I [07/Dec/2004:10:48:00 +0000] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
> 
> I am running on Solaris 9, and espgs is installed top /opt/sfw/espgs/bin/gs,
> but CUPS doesn't seem to see this.  I have tried creating a symbolic link
> from /opt/sfw/espgs/bin/gs to /usr/bin/gs and /usr/bin/local/gs, but CUPS
> still comes back with the above error.
> 
> Where does CUPS expect gs to be?  How can I tell CUPS that gs is actually in
> /opt/sfw/espgs/bin/gs?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Andrew McCall

Look at your CUPS installation parameters. If the installation
prefix is empty, put gs into /bin,
if the prefix is, e.g. /usr/local, put gs into /usr/local/bin.

Helge

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